Fusiliers, Fr. Fusileers are men armed with fusils or light musquets. When pikes were in use among the French, each regiment had only four fusileers, exclusive of ten grenadiers who carried the fusil or musquet. At present fusils or musquets are universally adopted in the European armies. Among the French there was a distinct regiment of fusileers under the immediate command of the grand master of the ordnance. The length of a French fusil was directed to consist of three French feet eight inches from the touch-hole to the muzzle, and the calibre to have the diameter of a ball taking twenty to the pound.
FUYARD, Fr. a run-a-way, a coward.
Un corps fuyard, Fr. a regiment that has been in the habit of running away.
FUZE. See [Fuse].
FUZES. Composition.
| Saltpetre | 3 | lbs. | 4 | oz. |
| Sulphur | 1 | — | ||
| Mealed powder | 2 | 12 |
| Kind. | Fuse Diameter. | Composition. | Drove by one man in 1 day. | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| below the cup. | at the bottom. | at the cup. | Diam- eter. | Length. | Time it burns. | ||||||
| Inches. | In. | Inch. | Inch. | In. | In. | ″ | No. | ||||
| 13 | 2.1 | 1 | .575 | 2 | .49 | .5 | 8 | .4 | 35 | 25 | |
| 10 | 1.8 | 1 | .55 | 2 | .13 | .438 | 7 | .2 | 33 | 25 | |
| 8 | 1.3 | 1 | .25 | 1 | .78 | .375 | 6 | .37 | 29 | 30 | |
| 5 | ¹⁄₂ | 1.1 | .825 | 1 | .3 | .275 | 4 | .4 | 18 | 50 | |
| 4 | ¹⁄₂ | 1.0 | .75 | 1 | .18 | .25 | 3 | .5 | 15 | 703 | |
| Grenades. | 0.8 | .6 | .9 | .2 | 2 | .25 | 1000 | ||||
Diameter inside the cup is 3 diameters of the bore.
Depth of the cup 1¹⁄₂ do.
Thickness of wood at bottom of the bore, 2 diameters.