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The ships level with the quay, their bowsprits projecting over the edge like a row of bayonets, and below them the carved and painted wooden figureheads of nymphs, goddesses and saintly virgins from which the ships took their names.
I intend to send down the remains of Colonel Poor's regiment for a few days, to cover a forage making by Mr. Hayes near Mamaroneck; and shall send by them public arms, with bayonets, to be exchanged for yours which want them. No good officer or man now below with you must be relieved till further orders. Give the officers of Poor's all the advice and assistance you can.
The officer shook off his well-meaning adviser as he ordered his men to stand firm and defend themselves with their bayonets.
Paying the command a high compliment, he immediately ordered me to fix bayonets and to charge on the enemy at the same time that Asboth with his reinforcement moved down the Fayetteville road towards the Elkhorn Tavern. I immediately did this, and passed right back over the field where I had been fighting, but found no enemy.
"Answer Right out to the Shenandoah River, which he forded. He found out from his cavalry, who were watching us, that we were actually leaving, and he started at 1 o'clock that same day, with 8,000 men, forded the Shenandoah where it was so deep that he ordered his men to put their cartridge-boxes on their bayonets, got out on the Leesburg road, and went down to Manassas." "Answer.
A second time, Napoleon had to give up his crown, and a second time King Louis XVIII was brought back into Paris and put upon the French throne by the bayonets of foreign troops. The people had been crushed, apparently, and the old feudal lords were once more in control. A King-Made Map and its Trail of Wrongs A meeting of kings and diplomats. Austrians and English vs. Prussians and Russians.
It has given you a rest. Bayonets!" There was another cheer at this, and the men stood fast as ever a dwindling party, hard beset, of the defenders of the mess-room veranda, their breast-work for the most part consisting of the bodies of the slain. "Steady, my lads! Close up!" cried the Major. "That you, Sir Charles? Good! I didn't know you could use a bayonet like that."
A troop of red foxes dashing into a poultry yard, never produced such squalling and flying as now took place among these poor guilty wretches "Lord have mercy upon us," they cried down fell their guns smack went the doors and windows and out of both, heels over head they tumbled, as expecting every moment the points of our bayonets.
But one man helped another, the stronger pulling up the weaker, until they halted for a moment breathless at the top. 'Charge! and away they went. The bayonets were covered with blood after that awful charge, and then, their work for the moment accomplished, they lay down, for the bullets were whistling around them. In the dense darkness they began to build sangars as best they could.
I mentally decided to obey the injunction to the absolute letter, and must admit that never before or since during my life have I walked such a straight line. With four soldiers behind with lowered bayonets, four in front and two on either side we moved out of the station.
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