Word: bayonetings
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...soldier, with a bayonet through his stomach, is cocked for a back-somersault; another goes out upside down on barbed wire (Last Position at Neuville...
...Keep your windows closed!" was the next order, to discourage snipers. Dutch troopers enforced it by firing with abandon into every open window they saw in the strike districts. Then tanks arrived. Cr-r-r-unch-down went the workmen's barricades and bayonet work began in earnest. On the fourth night Amsterdam's hospitals were full and eight deaths had been chalked up but the "Dole Riot" seemed about over...
...workers within, exchanging missiles with the strikers outside, dared not leave. They spent the night barricaded in the plant while windows were smashed, gates broken down. Next day Ohio's Governor White ordered 700 Guardsmen to the plant. Khaki-clad, tin-hatted, armed with gas bombs, rifles, bayonets, machine guns, the young Guardsmen from Ohio's towns and countryside marched in. Not peace but warfare followed. Though the factory ceased operations, rage and resentment seized the strikers who harried the soldiers with insults, jeers, rocks. Every window in the factory was broken. "Now," shouted a striker, "you have...
...planned to take Ballivian and stop. They found the Bolivians entrenched in open hayfields, for the first time in the war. General Estigarribia's artillery bombarded the trenches for two days. On the second the first wave of Paraguayans stumbled out into the hayfields in a close formation bayonet charge. The Bolivians had their first fun in months. With machine guns they mowed down the lines of little brown men, left not one standing. Another wave came over and another. Here and there an officer and a few men gained the Bolivian trenches, leaped down and died fighting...
...their armies are the more powerful will they be. The fallacy of the theory was exposed a generation ago by the mechanical progress which made one man, sitting behind a machine-gun, the superior of a hundred or even a thousand who were advancing against him with rifle and bayonet.* "Machine guns of every kind have multiplied everywhere since the last war, increasing the already overwhelming advantage of defensive forces on land. In contrast, artillery