Ulstan:
Your reference is always limited to Napoleonic wars. And you have no source referring numbers.
Why do you always mention battlefield hospitals? My figures are of "dead and wounded".
Yours is an empirical reasoning from your prior concept which again seems to be limited to Napoleonic war, nevertheless void of facts. I am not arguing with you about the importance of bayonet charges, it had its place in tactics, more applied by French army and those armies copying it during and post Napoleonic wars..... And you are--with all due respect--absolutely ignorant to claim that bayonets were just as lethal as fire arms. any army hospital surgeon will readily prove my point that knife/bayonet wounds are easier to treat than musket ball/shot wounds; and like it or not, it was the major cause of death and life-long cripples even for your favorite war period.
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