Fugitive Slave Law.
A law forming part of the Compromise Act, passed by Congress in 1850, under which fugitive slaves could be arrested in the free-labour states, while it was made a felony under certain conditions to harbour or aid in the escape of such slaves.
Fum the Fourth.
Furies de la Guillotine.
See Tricoteuses.
Fürstenbund.
A league of the German Princes, formed under the auspices of Frederick the Great in 1785, to uphold the Peace of Teschen. The cause of its formation was an attempt of the Emperor, Joseph II, to obtain possession of Bavaria, by exchanging for it the Austrian Netherlands.
Fusillades.
The wholesale massacres in Lyons, after the surrender of that city to the Revolutionary troops in 1792 were so called.