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Miller “soon put the enemy to flight at the point of a bayonet, capturing their colors and most of their arms,” Mr. Hemming writes, quoting Cochrane’s 1859 autobiography.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026

In fact, the French more or less conquered Southern California, not by the bayonet but by the corkscrew.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 1, 2025

The bayonet had to go, perhaps, because there had been complaints that the statue “should carry a wreath instead of a rifle,” said a Seattle Times story in Oct.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 12, 2022

The officers pulled him over on the 500 block of South Capitol Street SW and saw a bayonet and machete inside his truck.

From Washington Times ● Sep. 13, 2021

One of them put Madison’s tricorner hat on the point of a bayonet and said if they could not capture “the little president,” they could still parade his hat through London.

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis

“My father thinks that the reason he didn’t speak about it was the fact that he was bayoneted and gassed and it left such a horrible impression upon him.”

From New York Times ● Aug. 20, 2021

One of his biggest regrets, besides being bayoneted, “was in the excitement I had run out of film in my camera,” Norlander said.

From Washington Times ● May 16, 2020

A yawning sentry leaned on a bayoneted rifle; 17 soldiers slept.

From Time Magazine Archive

By that time the First was getting hard: men moved easily and quickly under their 40-lb. combat packs, 240 rounds of ammunition, bayoneted rifles.

From Time Magazine Archive

Presently he noticed that several troopers of the Hundred-Guards were watching him from the street; sentinels of the same corps were patrolling the garden, their long, bayoneted carbines over their steel-bound shoulders.

From Lorraine A romance by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)

They carry muskets, but they’re not shooting or bayoneting.

From New York Times ● Jul. 14, 2016

For the cynics on here this guy has just lost his wife, I think your bayoneting the wounded, what must it be for him to read rotten comments at this time in his life.

From BBC ● May 30, 2015

After the war, which dealt Kokoschka a head wound and a bayoneting, the artist moved to the front rank of avant-garde painters.

From Time Magazine Archive

As the Emperor of the East had all the gold, the Government Bank only protected itself from failure by bayoneting its creditors.

From The Voyage of Captain Popanilla by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

Through Red Square pranced hundreds of hardy steeds, their riders dressed like Cossacks and waving long, bayonetted rifles.

From Time Magazine Archive

U. S. Colonel Albert G. Love: In the World War, 65.9% of 224,000 U. S. wounded were shot, 31.49% gassed, .26% bayonetted.

From Time Magazine Archive

These soldiers all wore the same stern, tense expressions and handled their bayonetted rifles nervously, as if they were in the camp of the enemy.

From "Dragonwings" by Laurence Yep

Chinese soldiers with bayonetted guns stood guard at every railway station between Shanhaikwan and Mukden, and from Chinchowfu our coach was occupied by some Chinese official with guests and military attendants, including armed soldiers.

From Farmers of Forty Centuries; Or, Permanent Agriculture in China, Korea, and Japan by King, F. H. (Franklin Hiram)

“Yes,” said Major Sandars, entering into the joke, “I’ll give orders that every swollen serpent is to be bayonetted and opened if the doctor is missing.”

From Middy and Ensign by Rowlandson, G. D.