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They rose, and shook the packs into place on49 their shoulders, tightened and settled the straps about them, patted their ammunition pouches, felt the bayonets slip freely in their scabbards, tried the bolts and action of their rifles, and then stood waiting with a curious thrill, that was made up of expectation, of excitement, of fear, perhaps-they hardly knew what.
Two men were told off to jump out on the side they had entered, to run along under cover of the parapet and shoot at any one who emerged or showed in the entrance to the communication trench; two more to fling over a couple of grenades into the trench section into which the communication-way entered and follow it up with their bayonets ready, one to push on along the trench and bring any assistance he could raise, the other to be joined by the two men above, and, if the main attack succeeded, to push up along the communication-way and join Larry’s party.
There were only four standing when the smoke cleared, and the Anzacs were running at them with bayonets at the level.
Out to right and left of them the yell ran like fire through dry grass, the coo-ees rose long and shrill; as if by magic the dead ground sprouted gleaming bayonets and scrambling khaki figures.
What I saw in him-as evidently as the indestructible ramparts of Old Ticonderoga, already cited as the most appropriate simile-was the features of stubborn and ponderous endurance, which might well have amounted to obstinacy in his earlier days; of integrity, that, like most of his other endowments, lay in a somewhat heavy mass, and was just as unmalleable or unmanageable as a ton of iron ore; and of benevolence which, fiercely as he led the bayonets on at Chippewa or Fort Erie, I take to be of quite as genuine a stamp as what actuates any or all the polemical philanthropists of the age.
They fired their canons on Fort Sumter, they fixed their bayonets at Little Round Top, they lobbed shells onto Vicksburg until troops could seize the forts reigning over the Mississippi, they burned down Atlanta, and under William Tecumseh Sherman they scorched the earth on their march to the sea.
Advance sentinel of the proletariat, I cross bayonets with the celebrities of the day, as well as with spies and charlatans.
It is reported in camp that the New Yorkers, the first night after our arrival and encampment near them, slept on their guns, with bayonets ready for defense.
You might then have heard a hum of excitement and bustle of preparation, while a thousand bayonets clanked in their sockets and the boys placed their guns by their sides.
Gross, while a flickering candle was thrust in the face of each one to discover who he was, and bristling bayonets stood around them, the disappointment of the officers as their mistake and failure became more and more apparent, the fright of the "rookies" as they stood there in the uncertain light and their old clothes, the glad expression of relief when they were ordered to be dismissed-this, too, would be a picture.
If conscripts are necessary for its army, it seizes them, and marches them, with bayonets in their rear, to death.
The seasoned Austrian troops encountered an extremely heavy machine-gun and rifle fire as they climbed the slope, using their bayonets to give them support on the slippery ground, but continued the advance, and near the summit engaged the Italian defenders in a hand-to-hand combat, and after an hour of bayonet fighting drove the Italians from their positions.
There a Russian detachment consisting of about 500 men, of which one-half was cavalry and one-half infantry, found themselves suddenly surrounded by the bayonets of a superior Turkish force.
The hand-to-hand struggle was of the fiercest description, and French bayonets wrought deadly havoc among the German ranks.
The Eighteenth Corps of Brandenburgers succeeded in penetrating one point in the French lines, but a French regiment rushed the trench with fixed bayonets and destroyed or captured all the Germans in occupation.
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