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in vain as no efforts could
Sometimes they would halt and gaze at the triple row of bayonets, when two or three brave officers would advance and strive to urge the attack, raising their helmets aloft on their sabres—but all in vain, as no efforts could make the men close with the terrible bayonets, and meet certain destruction."
— from The Life of Napoleon I (Complete) by J. Holland (John Holland) Rose

in vain as no efforts could
Sometimes they would halt and gaze at the triple row of bayonets, when two or three brave officers would advance and strive to urge the attack, raising their helmets aloft on their sabres—but all in vain, as no efforts could make the men close with the terrible bayonets, and meet certain destruction.
— from The Life of Napoleon I (Volume 2 of 2) by J. Holland (John Holland) Rose

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