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<blockquote data-quote="mmadsen" data-source="post: 1437233" data-attributes="member: 1645">From <a href="http://ejmas.com/jnc/jncart_O'Leary_1100.htm" target="_blank">A la bayonet, or, &quot;hot blood and cold steel&quot;</a>:The bayonet does not rate highly as a cause of wounds and death in comparison to other battlefield weapons. Napoleon’s own surgeon-general claimed that &quot;for every bayonet-wound he treated there were a hundred caused by small arms or artillery fire.&quot; (22) One source gives sabre and bayonet wound statistics as 15-20 per cent before 1850 and only 4-6 per cent after 1860. (23) Similarly Puysegar is recorded as stating that one should &quot;just go to the hospital and … see how few men have been wounded by cold steel as opposed to firearms.&quot; (24) And Duffy quotes Corvisier as giving bayonet wound statistics as only 2.4 per cent. (25) Statistics from the Russo-Japanese War of 1904 give two and a half percent as the overall casualty rate for spears, swords and bayonets. (26)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="mmadsen, post: 1437233, member: 1645"] From [url="http://ejmas.com/jnc/jncart_O'Leary_1100.htm"]A la bayonet, or, "hot blood and cold steel"[/url]: The bayonet does not rate highly as a cause of wounds and death in comparison to other battlefield weapons. Napoleon’s own surgeon-general claimed that "for every bayonet-wound he treated there were a hundred caused by small arms or artillery fire." (22) One source gives sabre and bayonet wound statistics as 15-20 per cent before 1850 and only 4-6 per cent after 1860. (23) Similarly Puysegar is recorded as stating that one should "just go to the hospital and … see how few men have been wounded by cold steel as opposed to firearms." (24) And Duffy quotes Corvisier as giving bayonet wound statistics as only 2.4 per cent. (25) Statistics from the Russo-Japanese War of 1904 give two and a half percent as the overall casualty rate for spears, swords and bayonets. (26) [/QUOTE]

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