They did. They leaped over the wall, bayoneted their enemies, smashed skulls with clubbed muskets, and planted the battleflags of the South on Cemetery Ridge.
Hamilton himself halted a retreating infantry brigade and organised a bayonet charge and was badly injured when his horse was shot from underneath him.
I doubt that, friend William; I have no idea of any security against those cannibals but in a regiment of good soldiers, with their muskets and bayonets.
If we could only exchange a few words alone! Our general of twenty-two; our prince, who was intrusted to our bayonets! I have not seen him for fifteen years.
The allied siege lines could not be completed without taking these two positions, and on the 14th of October Washington decided to storm the redoubts with bayonet charges.