Definition of Tirailleur. Meaning of Tirailleur. Synonyms of Tirailleur

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Definition of Tirailleur

Tirailleur
Tirailleur Ti`rail`leur", n. [F., from tirailler to skirmish, wrest, from tirer to draw.] (Mil.) Formerly, a member of an independent body of marksmen in the French army. They were used sometimes in front of the army to annoy the enemy, sometimes in the rear to check his pursuit. The term is now applied to all troops acting as skirmishers.

Meaning of Tirailleur from wikipedia

- A tirailleur (French: [tiʁajœʁ]), in the Napoleonic era, was a type of light infantry trained to skirmish ahead of the main columns. Later, the term "tirailleur"...
- The Senegalese Tirailleurs (French: Tirailleurs Sénégalais) were a corps of colonial infantry in the French Army. They were initially recruited from Saint-Louis...
- The Tirailleurs indochinois (Vietnamese: Lính tập; Chữ Nôm: 𠔦習) were soldiers of several regiments of local ethnic Indochinese infantry organized as...
- Petit nègre (French pronunciation: [pəti nɛɡʁ]), also known as Français tirailleur (French pronunciation: [fʁɑ̃sɛ tiʁajœʁ]) or Petinègue or Forofifon naspa...
- included indigenous Arab or Berber volunteers; (spahis, Goumiers and tirailleurs); regiments largely made up of pied-noir French settlers doing their...
- The Thiowor Museum (French: Musée de Thiowor), known as Case du Tirailleur, is a museum located in the Louga Department, Senegal. In 2007, the ****ociation...
- The 7th Algerian Tirailleurs Regiment was an infantry unit of the French Army, part of the Army of Africa. Active between 1913 and 1946, the unit is one...
- in the sabotage of the German nuclear program, "Tirailleur" tells the story of a Senegalese Tirailleur during Operation Dragoon, and "Under No Flag" puts...
- 2e Régiment de Tirailleurs de la Garde Impériale. Two regiments of Tirailleurs-Ch****eurs were formed at the same time as the Tirailleurs-Grenadiers, and...
- transferred to the French Navy under Lend-Lease in September 1944 and renamed Tirailleur. PC-542 was laid down at the Defoe Shipbuilding Company in Bay City, Michigan...