English example sentences with "bayonets"

We also have fewer horses and bayonets because the nature of our military has changed.

There were two more soldiers at the door of the state-room, and their muskets seemed not to be loaded, for they never fired upon us, and they were shot while trying to fix their bayonets.

French leader Napoleon Bonaparte once said he feared four newspapers more than 1,000 bayonets.

The church bells rang and trumpets were sounded from every lofty tower, while the soldiers paraded with flags flying and glittering bayonets.

Some of the soldiers had rifles with bayonets.