Fusiliers (17th century)

Prussian physicists

Fusiliers - Infantry soldiers armed with rockets, called fusions or flints (from French fusil or flint). In the 18th century they replaced musketeers.

Fusilers appeared together with rocket weapons at the end of the 17th century (the first in the history of the physiological regiment was established in 1671 during the reign of Louis XIV - they were so called physalisers), but only in the eighteenth century branches of the former musketeers were massively renamed to the appropriate physiological units. However, the name of the musketeers was long and could be found even in the nineteenth century. In addition to the flint of the physicists, they also had choppers with a length of 60 cm to 75 cm. The officers, scabbard, sword or spear of 90-100 cm length and rocket gun.

In the second half of the eighteenth century the name of the physiognomes was received in light infantry in Prussia, which was organized into independent battalions. From the end of the 18th century to the mid-nineteenth century, the name of the physicians in the European armies carried most of the infantry. In every baonie this name was worn by all companies except the two politicians (grenadiers and voltiers). Later (the second half of the nineteenth century and the twentieth century) this name appeared sporadically.

In Poland in the 18th century, the Regiment of Artillery Infantry, whose task was to escort the division, was named a physiological regiment. Over time, it was transformed into a linear 5 regiment of the armies of the crown army, which was stationed in Bialystok in 1776. A separate article: 5 Regiment of Fusiliers. Literature

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