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British infantryman in 1941 with a Pattern 1907 bayonet affixed to his rifle. A bayonet (from Old French bayonette, now spelt baïonnette) is a knife, dagger, sword, or spike-shaped melee weapon designed to be mounted on the end of the barrel of a rifle, carbine, musket or similar long firearm, allowing the gun to be used as an improvised spear in close combats.
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Immediately after the adoption of the Bayonet Constitution, the Native Hawaiian population of the Hawaiian Kingdom sought to restore King Kalākaua's power and authority. A committee of Hawaiians met with Kalākaua to discuss dismantling the constitution because the king signed it under duress.
The M1905 bayonet has a 16 in (41 cm) steel blade and a 4 in (10 cm) handle with wooden or plastic grips. The bayonet also fits the U.S. M1 Garand rifle. From 1943 to 1945, a shorter, 10 in (25 cm), bladed version was produced with either black or dark red molded plastic grips, and designated the M1 bayonet. A number of M1905 bayonets were ...
Modern bayonets are often intended to be used in a dual role as both a combat knife and knife bayonet. [4] Improvised edged weapons were extensively used in trench warfare of the First World War ; for example, an entrenching tool might be modified to take an edge and be used as a melee weapon.
A lens mount may be a screw-threaded type, a bayonet-type, or a breech-lock (friction lock) type. Modern still camera lens mounts are of the bayonet type, because the bayonet mechanism precisely aligns mechanical and electrical features between lens and body.
Bayonet lug, a metal feature used to attach a bayonet to a long gun; Bayonet mount, an electrical fastening mechanism; Lens mount, sometimes as a bayonet type; Spanish bayonet (disambiguation), any of several plants in the genus Yucca or Hesperoyucca; Operation Bayonet (darknet), multinational law enforcement operation targeting darknet
The exposure of the bayonets would prevent head on charges of cavalry into the squares and thus were quite effective. The unit could move in square, but the square model proved slower than a column and more vulnerable to musket and cannon fire, so if enemy infantry were a more proximate threat than cavalry, the unit would shift from square to ...