bantarleton:“The bayonet held especial fear for Americans as it embodied the superior martialprofess
bantarleton:“The bayonet held especial fear for Americans as it embodied the superior martialprofessionalism of the British army; American troops were much less accustomedto bayonet fighting.” - Holger Hoock, ‘MangledBodies: Atrocity in the American Revolutionary War’ in Past and Present: A Journal of Historical Studies, Volume 230, Issue 1, eds. AlexandraWalsham and Matthew Hilton (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016), pp. 157 -158. -- source link