Bernard Cornwell (1944) British writer
Major Richard Sharpe, p. 311
Sharpe (Novel Series), Sharpe's Enemy (1984)
“The bullet is a fool, the bayonet is a fine chap.”
Nauka pobezhdat, Dokumenty, vol. III, p. 504, cited in af.mil http://www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil/airchronicles/aureview/1986/nov-dec/menning.html. <br class="br">Compare with "The bullet is a mad thing; only the bayonet knows what it is about." from "The Science of Victory," 1796.
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