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To: AGreatPer

We’ll have the annual midnight fusillade.


10 posted on 12/31/2008 4:02:43 PM PST by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin
You had me going with that word "fusillade". Never heard it before.

"A fusillade is the simultaneous and continuous firing of a group of firearms on command. It stems from the French word fusil, meaning firearm, and fusiller meaning to shoot."

I just found out from a friend that is what they do at Gettysburg with muskets.

15 posted on 12/31/2008 4:18:25 PM PST by AGreatPer (Obama is not my president until we see his birth certificate. A real one.)
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