[f. prec. sb.] trans. To assault (a place), to shoot down (persons) by a simultaneous discharge of fire-arms.
1816. Southey, in Quarterly Review, XV. April, 56. A whole corps who laid down their arms were marched apart by one of Stofflet’s officers and fusilladed.
1851. Carlyle, Sterling, I. xiii. (1872), 77. ‘Military execution on the instant; give them shriving if they want it; that done, fusillade them all.’
1884. W. T. Stead, Chinese Gordon, in The Century Magazine, XXVIII. 560/1. The Mahdi’s adherents fusilladed his [Gordon’s] palace at Khartoum.
Hence Fusillading vbl. sb. Also Fusillader.
1839. Carlyle, Chartism, v. 141. Lyons fusilladings … these … were but a new irrefragable preaching abroad of that.
1878. H. M. Stanley, Dark Cont., II. iv. 119. The butcher of women and fusillader of children.
