Crossword-Solution: BAGNETS 7 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 10

The rest of us hadn't no bagnets." One day a few years later, when I was in college, I walked up from Cambridge to Concord, through Lexington, and had a chat with old Jonathan Harrington by the roadside.

You as has rifles and bagnets always show 'em the pynte; and you as fights with your cutlashes, keep 'em well away off your sword arm; then you'll be all right." Capital advice if it could be acted upon, and a way of avoiding all kris wounds, but useless against the Malays' other dangerous weapon, the limbing or lance.

This, the first military book in the British colonies, directed the soldiers to appear "with their hair, or periwigs, tied up in bags, and their hats briskly cocked." We hear also for the first time of the "powder-horn" and the "cartouch-box." The "bagnets" that are mentioned were of little use against the Indians, and they were scarcely known in America until the wars with France.

Bagnets: charge." His companions hesitated for a moment, and then, lowering their pieces, they made a rush for those who barred their way to the boat.

The march of these veterans to Leith is thus humorously described by Ferguson:-- “Come, hafe a care (the captain cries), On guns your bagnets thraw: Now mind your manual exercise, And march down row by row.