bayonet
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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
No one wants to support a movie at the point of a bayonet.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 5, 2022
An influential civil rights pioneer whose determination not to back down while protesting racial inequality was captured in a photograph as she pushed away the bayonet of a National Guardsman.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 2, 2021
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
Finally he picked up the Hessian’s musket and bayonet and put it over his shoulder.
From I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 by Lauren Tarshis
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The American Civil War
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"Shooting an Elephant" by George Orwell
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