Soldiers Ward off Taliban with Bayonets.

For the soldiers stationed at Crossing Point One in the badlands of Afghanistan it was like something out of Zulu.Hardcore Taliban fighters launched wave after wave of suicidal onslaughts as they tried to get into the isolated British base in northern Nad'e Ali.The combat was so fierce that soldiers were ordered to fix bayonets as the insurgents pushed to within just 30 metres of the tiny compound's mud walls. More here

In another incident reported today, a British soldier was killed with a Boer War rifle!! Here.