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@julianshepherd2038
2 жыл бұрын
It has been scientifically proven that "they don't like it up em".
@jhonbus
2 жыл бұрын
Yay, Skillshare is alright, isn't it! Glad you're no longer pretending to play Raid Shadow Legends 😂
@zhaozilong99
2 жыл бұрын
Out of curiosity what is the Pinyin for the name of Chines treatise?
@jswets5007
2 жыл бұрын
The bayonet was the result of musket troops requesting transfer to pole arm duty, because at that point pikemen and billmen had a far higher battle survival rate. *Disclaimer* Partially or completely fabricated history. 😂
@KaletheQuick
2 жыл бұрын
I think the question is more appropriately: "When, where, and why did the spear start shooting bullets?"
@_R.r.d_
2 жыл бұрын
About the time we realised this new fangled string stuff could be tied to both ends of it
@karlenglewood8940
2 жыл бұрын
around the 13th century, China, because not everyone can be the Poles and use a 20ft lance.
@michaelgarrow3239
Жыл бұрын
Exactly!
@johnguss6087
Жыл бұрын
😂
@faramund9865
Жыл бұрын
No it isn't. Ever heard of pike and shot? The 'spear' and musket lived side by side for a long time. Muskets became more and more, and the pike lost its use. So it is a musket with a blade, not the other way round.
@dover1024
2 жыл бұрын
Hello, just want to point out that in old Chinese, "賊", or "bandit" in this case, are usually an alternative call of "enemy", instead of the actual bandit.
@kanrakucheese
2 жыл бұрын
Royal Armouries XIV.13 is dated to 1590 and has a supposedly removable fork “bayonet” (as RA description describes it). Even weirder, it’s a socket bayonet and not a plug bayonet. (On a side note, XIV.13 really seems like something a SoulCalibur character would use. It’s even from exactly the right era!)
@FitnessTips4Ux
2 жыл бұрын
“Fix bayonets!” *me pulling out whetstone and blacksmith hammer* “Ok sir you got it but kinda weird timing don’t you think?”
@darthhodges
Жыл бұрын
InRangeTV has a video talking about the hand weapons of WW1 demonstrating how the rifle mounted bayonet was pretty terrible in the trenches. They also show very well how having a reach advantage on someone with a dagger or sharpened shovel is inconsequential if they can close the gap.
@Tomcat_ha
2 жыл бұрын
I always heard that one of the reasons why the yatağan became such a popular sword in the Ottoman army was that they were easy to use as bayonets. I never found anything written on this though.
@Chuklz70
2 жыл бұрын
Matt could create an entire new playlist on just bayonets❣️
@pedroguerrero3862
Жыл бұрын
This is very interesting video as someone who been interesting in knife and the history of knifes, it would be great to see the evolution of bayonets, how bayonet changed due to environment as well as other factors.
@mathewkelly9968
2 жыл бұрын
28:00 the Japanese weren't the only ones to use the bayonet effectively in ww2 , troops like the Australians and New Zealanders used it to good effect in North Africa . And my Pa served in PNG the bayonet on the end of an SMLE was important there too .
@CollinKillian
Жыл бұрын
Effectively used? Nah, if by effective you mean dying then yes bayonets were effectively used..
@Forscythe80
2 жыл бұрын
Since I was a kid it always irked me the bayonettes I saw in media curved away. I always chalked it up to dodgy props by production companies too cheap to make quality bayonets. It never donned on me that it was so they didn't impale their hands with them while reloading. I assumed people were more careful as I figured I was.... At least I thought that while I was safely not in a line of musketeers receiving fire from the enemy and thus would take a bit more time to watch my hands and so on.
@DavidSmith-vr1nb
2 жыл бұрын
Never dawned on you, is what I think you meant. Autocorrect problem?
@midshipman8654
2 жыл бұрын
could a lesser reason be because of eventual warping? like does a triangular spike with a long side do that?
@DavidSmith-vr1nb
2 жыл бұрын
@@midshipman8654 Not that I'm aware. Steel bent at low temperatures tends to kink in one location, unless you go to a lot of trouble to avoid that.
@Forscythe80
2 жыл бұрын
@@DavidSmith-vr1nb Autocorrection. Either way, what's the point to your comment other than to be obnoxious?
@therightarmofthefreeworld4703
2 жыл бұрын
@@Forscythe80 This is an educational video, so it's safe to assume that most viewers are here to learn. Using a word with a completely different meaning could be very confusing and counterproductive for anyone who is reading comments and also trying to improve their standard of English. Highlighting an error is helpful to such people.
@dizzt19
2 жыл бұрын
On a slightly related note, I just saw an exhibit of pistol-swords, axes and all kinds of silly pistol combinations - that could be a fun video :)
@SkorupaPancNaSkorCzl
2 жыл бұрын
I heard the theory that the first users were hunters. In the case of an attack by an injured animal attaching bayonet took less time than reloading the weapon (muzzleloader).
@brittakriep2938
2 жыл бұрын
In case of boar hunt, in Germany up to 1860s dog packs ( of Saurüden - Deutsche Dogge/ Great Danes) had been used and boarspears. For the reason of growing boar numbers in Germany for about 20 years causing problems. A hunter told me, there is a small Comeback of boarspear ( Saufeder).
@BRBMrSoul
2 жыл бұрын
Some military commander was on the trip, or heard of it and realized be brilliant for his troops…ya…I could see that being the path they took, like nearly common thing just dismissed for years until someone in military actually saw its effectiveness.
@RonJohn63
2 жыл бұрын
Before watching this, the adage "necessity is the mother of invention" springs to mind: When? The first time that musketeers needed pikes. Why? Up close fighting, melee after discharging their weapons, and to defend against cavalry. Industrial and metallurgical realities certainly also played a part.
@VernonKun
2 жыл бұрын
I did no research on the subject, but I would like to throw in some thoughts in the transfer from pikes to bayonets. I guess the early muskets had to be developed to be less bulky in order to be an acceptable melee weapon, and at that point the invention of bayonets would be automatic regardless of cultures. And then muskets will have to exist in adequate numbers in order to replace pikes completely, seeing that pikes would be a lot cheaper than muskets in 1600s.
@shatnermohanty6678
2 жыл бұрын
Could the Elephant Tusk Sword featured in Forged in Fire be classified as the first example of a Bayonet ? Basically it had the same function 🤔
@andreweden9405
2 жыл бұрын
Awesome, as always! Matt, could you please do a video about knives in North America prior to the period of the Bowie knife? Of course, you could always talk about this period in other places as well, such as Australia, South Africa, et al. It just seems that the North American history is a little richer when it comes to bladed weapons because you had the adoption of European-introduced weapons such as iron/steel headed tomahawks, and knives, by Native Americans at a very early date. This, of course, is to say nothing of the Native American adoption of firearms. Also, as you probably already know, the cutlers and bladesmiths of Sheffield, England absolutely dominated this market, even more so than they did during the period of the Bowie. Otherwise, could you please do a video about the use of tactical knives and tomahawks in the modern day military context? Thank you for the content!
@brittakriep2938
2 жыл бұрын
This weapon is in german called Bajonett or Seitengewehr. In later HRE periode, there had been two ,german' armies. The ,Kaiserliche Armee' ( Emperors army) , the emperors own army, and the ,Reichsarmee' ( Empire army). This army was mobilized by parlament order, and formed by levies of every german state. Smallest levie ,as far as i know, had been four footmen of town Buchhorn ( current name Friedrichshafen). In 1680s there had been much fights between HRE and Ottoman ( turkish) troops. In 1692 ( 1693) german Parlament ( Reichstag) ordered , that it is no more allowed to send pikemen to ,Reichsarmee'.
@regencyrow1867
2 жыл бұрын
The bayonet was just the reintroduction of one the greatest weapons in history: the spear.
@johnc6809
2 жыл бұрын
Not really. Though a short blade on a long handle may make it appear so. Other then that similarity, it’s apples and oranges. The bayonet is much more limited in use when a fixed to its firearm / handle.
@Lionbug
2 жыл бұрын
Eeeeeh not really
@LazyLifeIFreak
2 жыл бұрын
Can't keep a good idea down.
@yotelex
2 жыл бұрын
And there was me thinking the greatest weapon in history was the pointed stick! 🙂
@nickh5081
2 жыл бұрын
I like the "Bayo-morning star" hanging on the wall behind him... or is it a "Bayo-flail"?
@KrazyKobold
2 жыл бұрын
When did the knife/sword bayonet come along -- do we know?
@janrobertbos
2 жыл бұрын
NICE!!!!!!!!!😃
@CoffeeFiend1
10 ай бұрын
People get so fixated on who invented what first. It's far more practical to look at who started using what and where in any significant numbers first. Did the Italians invent pizza? Did the Chinese invent pasta? Did Neanderthals invent the spear? It's literally impossible to know the first instance of something being done and it's honestly not important. Who started using it in significant numbers and employed innovation to it is far more important.
@JimTempleman
2 жыл бұрын
Sebastien Le Prestre Vauban (1633-1707) is credited with inventing the socketed bayonet. He was a French military engineer, who later became the Marshal of France. He invented many different tactics associated with siege warfare. My favorite of his quotes: "One does not fortify by systems, but by good sense and experience." It never ceases to amaze me that it took a military genius to invent the socketed bayonet. So I wonder if he might just have been the first to requisition enough of them to be used enmasse?
@shieldwallofdragons
2 жыл бұрын
So if bayonets or things like them existed in the early 1600s but were not called Bayonets at that time....what did people call them I wonder?
@khaccanhle1930
2 жыл бұрын
I've got two old milsurp rifles. Both of them, I got bayonets for as SOON as possible. Because a milsurp with no cold steel is just wrong. They look sweet hung on a wall.
@BRBMrSoul
2 жыл бұрын
Can buy, or could buy I dunno anymore, but surplus SKS rifles where I live, and only reason went for one? Bayonets are all fixed (swivel mount), well that and SKS is super cheap but still solid rifle haha
@wouter.de.ruiter
2 жыл бұрын
The bayonet was invented by an Irish soldier from Mayo, called Ned, who named it after himself. Unfortunately he had a cold when he explained the name of his invention to his officer....
@universehopper8032
2 жыл бұрын
Mayoned- M(B)ayoneD(T)
@ericdpeerik3928
2 жыл бұрын
I think you'll find his name was Beolagh O'nedd, hence his invention was called a B. O'nedd
@kkupsky6321
2 жыл бұрын
I heard it was an Irish fisherman needing to spear dinner and meant it as bay o’ nets because there was no room for his.
@BUZZKILLJRJR
2 жыл бұрын
Yup true story..
@morriganmhor5078
2 жыл бұрын
Matt, I also came across a mention about Spanish boar hunters using plug daggers/bayonets even before. Don´t you know anything more about it?
@Seraphus87
2 жыл бұрын
Yeah, I read about this theory as well somewhere.
@lunacorvus3585
2 жыл бұрын
Sounds interesting, is there any source for that?
@Buzzcook
2 жыл бұрын
I read the same thing about French boar hunters.
@mnk9073
2 жыл бұрын
It makes sense in a hunting context, no need to quickly get the bayonet out of the muzzle again and after all "just" clubbing a boar only makes it angrier.
@dougredshirt3991
2 жыл бұрын
This is the same story I heard also. After all after shooting at a boar, you have no time to reload. You are not going to carry both a boar spear and a firearm. So a nice compromise.
@jeroylenkins1745
2 жыл бұрын
The thing about a modern bayonet charge is how much it is like an old bayonet charge. There are very very few bayonet wounds that happened for the last 120 years or so. Because once one side gets in with a bayonet charge the other side is going to surrender, run off, or not survive the experience. While it is a physical object on modern weapons it very much has a psychological effect on the attacker and defender all out of proportion to the actual effectiveness of the weapon.
@DH-xw6jp
Жыл бұрын
It makes sense that people ran from bayonet charges, i think. Only a lunatics would charge into an enemy trench with only a bayonet, and noone wants to fight a lunatic especially if he is armed with a blade!
@MythicFool
2 жыл бұрын
I remember Lloyd made a video about bayonets a few years back (holy hell, eleven years ago now), and he mentioned that: "...shot a couple Frenchmen and then charged, screaming, through the smoke. By and large they then did NOT spend the next several minutes bayonetting Frenchmen. (More's the pity) Instead they would find that the area previously occupied by a lot of Frenchmen...now wasn't. They had all run away.....They were humans, and humans tend not to stick around to be bayonetted."
@Simon_Nonymous
2 жыл бұрын
and this is still the best explanation of the bayonet to this day!
@ulfhunden
2 жыл бұрын
In military engineering circles Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban is sometimes credited with the invention/adoption of the bayonet.
@rogerlafrance6355
2 жыл бұрын
Called juken-jutsu in Japan and derived from pole arm forms, its hard to know when it started to be seen before Regulation Armies East or West. We know there were things like longbows with sharp pointy things fitted to the ends and pole weapons with removable blades to get the most use out of them.
@kiwiprouddavids724
2 жыл бұрын
Everything China has is from stolen intellectual property the same thing has probably happened hear China stole the knowledge from others
@thomasrehbinder7722
2 жыл бұрын
Swedish socket bayonets, introduced in the 1690's, were secured by wingnuts. Also Sweden kept their pikes until the 1720's
@maximilianolimamoreira5002
2 жыл бұрын
yeah, and the United Irishmen used pikes in 1798, despite it not being a standard issue weapon
@toddwebb7521
2 жыл бұрын
Well if I had a muzzleloader with one shot and then took like 30 seconds to reload I'd want a pointy pokey thing on it.
@futurerandomness1620
2 жыл бұрын
Nice way to completely ignore the giant box "carefully hidden" under that red sheet in the background. I guess I'll have to wait until the next video for what's in the box!
@Pavlos_Charalambous
2 жыл бұрын
the greatest power of bayonets it's the effect they have in human psyche. one of the biggest human fears is been bitten by something that resembles a claw or Sharp teeth moving fast and unpredictable. That's why bayonets and knifes in general are relevant to this day
@chengkuoklee5734
2 жыл бұрын
The trauma of fangs and claws have been imprinted into our genetic memory. Even if I'm well armoured against blade, I still need a bit time to retune my mind facing swords.
@danpit2001
2 жыл бұрын
and the courage having your own fang and claw gives you
@BRBMrSoul
2 жыл бұрын
Funny, new rifle US looking to adopt, no bayonet lug. End of an era perhaps.
@Pavlos_Charalambous
2 жыл бұрын
@@BRBMrSoul correct me if am wrong but I think us rangers adopted i kinda of sharp flash hider as a replacement for their bayonets
@OlegLyutov
Жыл бұрын
yeah, this is why bayonet mount is stupidly regarded as an assault weapon feature, although I've never heard that someone was killed by a bayonet attached to a firearm in civilian setting…
@raphlvlogs271
2 жыл бұрын
weapons such as swords and crossbows were also invented multiple times independently in history
@johnc6809
2 жыл бұрын
Great video. Isn’t it interesting just how these histories unravel? Never quite as simple as most of us would prefer. Good job explaining how many different groups of people, when confronted with the same problem, can come up with the same or very similar solution!
@motv1nd193
2 жыл бұрын
if human lives aren't simple, then why should a web of intertwined humans be any simplier? that's what is so fascinating about history, it is one story after another and all of them are connected in one way or another
@BRBMrSoul
2 жыл бұрын
Have to do some research my self, but starting to wonder…was this already a general idea, ie from crossbows?
@peepshow090
2 жыл бұрын
I used to see so many old bayonets used as fire pokers back when coal fires were the way everyone heated their home 🏡 I had a relative who had one on the hearthstone stood up in an old brass shell case, he was a ww1 veteran and he didn't have a very high opinion of the army that he said ran away from the Germans at Dunkirk 😂
@letsdothis9063
3 ай бұрын
Was Monty Python there?
@peepshow090
3 ай бұрын
@@letsdothis9063 you know what, Monty gets around so he could have been hiding somewhere 😊🤣
@TimRHillard
23 сағат бұрын
Army veteran here, it’s for when you run out of ammo… fix bayonets, not really what you want to hear or have to do.
@arecane2000
2 ай бұрын
Sumpit or sumpitan - Wikipedia "Those people of Polaoan go naked as do the others: almost all of them cultivate their fields. They have blowpipes with thick wooden arrows more than one palmo long, with harpoon points, and other tipped with fishbones, and poisoned with an herb; while others are tipped with points of bamboo like harpoon and are poisoned. At the end of the arrow they attach a little piece of softwood, instead of feathers. At the end of their blowpipes they fasten a bit of iron like a spearhead; and when they have shot all their arrows they fight with that." - Antonio Pigafetta, Relazione del primo viaggio intorno al mondo (1524-1525)
@patrickdusablon2789
2 жыл бұрын
With regards to bayonet use in modern use, elements of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders resorted to a bayonet charge in combat near Basrah back in 2004. And as late as 2011, British troops would fix bayonets while patrolling in Afghanistan, and bayonet charges were used to good effect. I'm given to understand that in Iraq, the outnumbered Highlanders really shocked the insurgents with their charge, while in Afghanistan it was done to "boost aggressiveness", and that in some of the really close terrain involved, sometimes a bayonet was as effective as a rifle in some ways.
@daemonharper3928
2 жыл бұрын
I for one find a bayonet on a rifle very intimidating. And like all hand weapons, the better trained practitioner wins the vast majority of the time.
@niallpringle4638
6 ай бұрын
The Catholic/Irish forces at the Battle of the Boyne only had plug bayonets while the Dutch forces had the more modern socket bayonets. One of the reasons for their defeat.
@tiltskillet7085
2 жыл бұрын
Apropos of almost nothing, but right after I watched this, what appeared in my queue? A Forgotten Weapons bayonet *handgun* video, of course: kzitem.info/news/bejne/y4-HtIeHbJ2jiqw Now I expect a Tod's Workshop video inspired by an obscure 17th century drawing talking about the potential historicity and applications of a bayonet mounted on a trebuchet.
@ABaumstumpf
2 жыл бұрын
There is a german manuscript on the development of Handguns from 1890, talking about a letter dating to 1575 that is talking about a golden dagger which is called bajonnet, (german dictionary from 1611/55 mentions bayonets as small knives) . Mentions that blades/knives belong to frontloaders can be found in the middle of the 17th century,. There are several mentions of attaching blades to firearms predating 1606, but none call them bayonet.
@schwadevivre4158
2 жыл бұрын
Why the bayonet charge was effective? To cite Corporal Jones "They don't like it up 'em Mr Mainwaring"
@davidfletcher6703
2 жыл бұрын
I'd like to know your take on the gun-axe
@stonedog5547
2 жыл бұрын
As Corporal Jones says "They don't like it up 'em".... I put it to you that its a bayonet, anyone who does like it up 'em has an awful lot of problems already
@roycebunce9373
2 жыл бұрын
16 minutes in and you still haven't gotten to the point. Dude really likes listening to himself talk. Bloats the hell out his videos. I've been subscribed because I find the topics he discusses interesting, but I don't have the patience for watching a half our video that only gets to the point in the last five minutes. Unsubscribed
@HughMEvans
2 жыл бұрын
Have to remember as well that in the 1690's, European armies convert from matchlock to flintlock. That means they are no longer dealing with open flame and sparks and can mass shoulder to shoulder, instead of maintaining a safe distance between musketeers. That allows them to form a "living wall" and concentrate both melee and firepower.
@StealthPants1
Жыл бұрын
23:09 british people claim ownership of a lot of things, that doesn't mean they actually deserve it lmao
@jrhamilton4448
Жыл бұрын
There are numerous examples of infantry using the bayonet against other infantry units in order to rout their forces or defend from a close quarters attack which ultimately leads to hand to hand fighting where this type of weapon is very useful.
@randallmusgrave5138
2 жыл бұрын
Boom booom + poke poke = win?
@l0rf
2 жыл бұрын
Oh you intellectuals and your fancy terms. Can you simplify that for me?
@randallmusgrave5138
2 жыл бұрын
@@shinobi-no-bueno Yus Yus.
@mackenziebenedict8403
2 жыл бұрын
pike and shot?
@APV878
2 жыл бұрын
I didn't know about the Chinese mention in 1606, interesting. Great points and overall interesting and thought provoking. When you mentioned the Pikemen becoming musketeers and the musketeers being their own pikemen/able to defend themselves, and pikemen being phased out in early modern tactics, it made me think about how often this sort of thing happens, being "standardizing" or dare I say simplifying, armies and tactics, and as you know I do a lot of research into the Romans, and this all made me think about the major switch the Romans took from the 3-rank system in the Punic wars to the "Cohort system" where everyone was equipped similarly with sword & shield, &c. Lots to think about. I'm not a fantastic Lexicographer by any stretch, but is it possible that the word "Bayonet" being a "small knife" is an English mis-spelling of "Bayonette" ?
@eruantien9932
Жыл бұрын
There's a description in Shizhen Zhao's "Shenqipu" (published in 1598) of a knife that attaches to Ottoman muskets; we have confirmation that his native China is using plug bayonets 8 years later.
@Kanner111
2 жыл бұрын
A great video, my only takeaway is that gosh it's nice to know the name of the person (or at least the company) who invented a thing. I'm a little leery of the idea of convergent evolution simply because stuff that seems very difficult - e.g calculus - is verifiably something that was independently invented in a couple of places, while 'obvious' ideas that are ubiquitous in the modern world, like pockets and shoulder stocks for rifles, took hundreds if not thousands of years to be invented. In this particular instance, it seems very credible that multiple people could have looked at a rifle barrel (a big hole) and come up with the idea of jamming a little spike in the top. But also? That is a really crummy pike. It is not going to save you from a lancer, it is probably pretty bad for the barrel, and a hundred years of using muskets etc and not coming up with this supposedly obvious idea is a pretty long time, given the allegedly ruthlessly practical evolution of warfare. So there's also a lot of reasons to just dismiss the idea of munting a perfectly good rifle by sticking a little dagger down the end. The socket bayonet idea, however, that lets you keep a spear form weapon AND shoot it AND even reload it, if you're not clumsy - that absolutely changed warfare like nothing else until the machine gun. So the real genius here is taking the bad idea - transform your musket into the world's shortest, heaviest spear! - and actually making it work well enough that, whatever drawbacks remain (e.g you don't want a heavy-ass bit of metal weighing down the end of your barrel when you're trying to aim) it's now good enough that you really wouldn't NOT do it. And that's an interesting thing in a world that values original ideas over putting in the actual work to make them viable.
@Eckister
2 жыл бұрын
22:08 you can certainly fire the plug out, so I guess the boyonet would work as well. A mate of mine once forgot to retrieve it after plugging, luckily they went the extra mile and had the people fire into an area, where nobody would be, because they later found the plug lodged in a wooden pole (it went half-way).
@BRBMrSoul
2 жыл бұрын
Lol wow
@texasbeast239
2 жыл бұрын
In 1980, when American actor Scott Baio worked a brief stint at a burger joint and he was informed he would have to wear a hair net for his luscious locks. Thus was born the BaioNet. For trade reasons, that was changed to Bayonet.
@brooklynwolfbear
2 жыл бұрын
Matt: The reason why the military concluded that the bayonet was not very lethal was that the bean counters went to the hospital and compared bullet wounded to bayonet wounded. Bayonet attacks are so vicious and destructive that most victims never lived long enough to make it to the hospital. You also failed to mention the modern bayonet is designed as a multitool; bayonet, wire cutter, fighting knife, survival knife, emergency digging tool for finding buried mines, a pry bar, a can opener, etc etc.
@BRBMrSoul
2 жыл бұрын
Ya US even made a shovel bayonet at one point iirc
@StrikeRaptor1000
2 жыл бұрын
@@BRBMrSoul the experimented a Jungle chopping hack blade bayonet in the Philippines
@malcolmmaciver7000
2 жыл бұрын
Great video- one of the other features of the plug bayonet in the Killikrankie case was the quality of manufacture (I'm sure this was an issue when I served....) there's cases of the plug bayonet simply snapping/breaking when subject to enough force. McBane describes this happening to him at the Battle of Mulroy (1689) though other accounts indicate it as common at Killikrankie as well.
@blakebailey22
2 жыл бұрын
19:00 I was under the impression that artillery was the driving force of the abandonment of pike formations, as they were kind of sitting ducks once artillery got more accurate and more accessible. That along with the increased production of firearms and bayonets
@Simon_Nonymous
2 жыл бұрын
But if you then consider that the musket armed troops fought in similarly dense formations as pikemen, then....
@bakters
2 жыл бұрын
Yes, exactly. Artillery also *drastically* changed the economies of war. No matter how well trained and equipped your army could be, it would still suffer heavy losses. All the investment is then lost with very little return. It simply made more economic sense to get more troops. Interestingly, it kinda always worked like that, to a degree at least. So why people didn't go the way of massed armies much earlier? I think it had a lot to do with supply lines. If the population density is low, with poor roads and very difficult logistics, fielding more soldiers is of no use. They will just desert on mass, because you can't feed them. So in the end, they produced more muskets because they could supply bigger armies.
@markkelly6259
2 жыл бұрын
@@bakters The French at the time of Napoleon did not feed their troops except in France. They relied on foraging when in other countries. This was much cheaper and allowed them to maintain a much larger army by keeping various low level wars going on in Germany and Italy which were not united countries at the time. This was tough on the populations of those areas who were essentially experiencing a continuous version of Sherman's march to the sea when the French army was around.
@Simon_Nonymous
2 жыл бұрын
@@bakters I think with both muskets and artillery the industry required to produce them in mass form made a difference - the pike man was after all armed with a stick, but guns that shoot and don't blow up are trickier to mass produce. I am sure logisitcs played its part too as you describe.
@bakters
2 жыл бұрын
@@Simon_Nonymous Sure, a musket is more labor intensive than a pike, but pikemen tended to be armored. A breastplate needed to fit the soldier, or he would not be able to use the pike well. Napoleonic cuirassiers' armor was not fitted well, for example. Add to that a helmet and often complex folds for thigh protection and it's not cheap anymore. Pikemen were paid more than musketeers, probably at least partially in order to cover the expenses of purchasing and maintaining their kit. A musket is built from relatively few pieces, in comparison. None of them needed to be fitted to the soldier.
@vast634
Жыл бұрын
When wielding a stick, make it pointy.
@johnguss6087
Жыл бұрын
That’s an interesting point. I must have missed it the first time I watched this. Can you fire/launch a socket bayonet using a gunpowder charge? If so, what would its effective range be? Is there any documentation regarding this nonstandard use? Of course you’d be disarming yourself in a desperation maneuver, but I don’t imagine it would arise all that often. This strikes me as the kind of thing that might happen towards the end of an engagement. I’m the first to admit that I don’t know a great deal about the warfare of this period. This topic would make an interesting follow up video.
@letsdothis9063
3 ай бұрын
It would probably cause your gun to explode. Just a thought. Barrel obstructions are never good.
@Richman0815
Жыл бұрын
Thank you for this great an interesting video. Very nice topic. I think the bayonet also caught on because it's a lot cheaper to equip a musketeer with a long, simple knife or dagger than with a full-fledged sword to defend yourself in a group. With the bayonet, the musket became a spear. Although a Spear is less effective against cavalry than a pike. But, so a musketeer does not have to be taught how to fight with a sword. This shortens the training time considerably. The warped on pikes developed in parallel, certainly also for the reasons mentioned in the video. In addition, the Pike, and the cavalary, became obsolete with the introduction of breech-loaders and repeaters.
@Richman0815
Жыл бұрын
P.S.: Even in World War II, every German soldier equipped with a K98k was also equipped with a bayonet. Usually in combination with the spade. All German rifles had to be able to accept bayonets. There was even a boyonet for the H&K G3 after the war.
@marcushavland9316
2 жыл бұрын
Off topic, but super exciting! They found HMS Gloucester! It's probably full of various stabby, cutty and shooty things.
@neilfulcher9298
2 жыл бұрын
In a modern army the bayonet is a weapon of intent. It tells your enemy to what extent you are prepared to take the fight! "If I have to I'll come over there and ram this into your chest". As you have mentioned it converts a lethal weapon into a less lethal weapon for use in crowd control, or to panic an inexperienced enemy into fleeing. I read somewhere that the eventual tactic the British army used to combat a highland charge was to fight in lines each soldier attacking the enemy to one side of them, rather than in front of them. This exploits the fact that they had raised their sword arm exposing their chest. This is why the British infantryman always stood in the same order, the knew the guy to their left and right, and depended on them the way they depended on him. In the end a soldier fights for his comrades not his Country.
@hisholinesssriak7618
2 жыл бұрын
The big knife on the end of one's firearm was sarcastically referred to as that little knife from Bayonne, possibly.
@c.taylorharris7881
2 жыл бұрын
Wanted to point out that the socket bayonet matches the standardization of “true” flintlocks. Being able to shoot twice as fast and not having to worry about burning yourself with an ember attached to your gun (while playing stabby stabby) allowed the higher ups to conclude that it was finally time to retire the pikes.
@Kris_Stiletto
Жыл бұрын
You are a great source for information on Historical Blades. :-) Right on! I enjoy your Channel. :-) Peace, Stiletto :-)
@brianknezevich9894
2 жыл бұрын
A minor note: the earlier the firearm, generally speaking, the more they were effected by moisture, so particularly in smaller engagements/encounters, they would be very useful, or simple moral encouragement and deterrent. If you think about being in a small group with any earlier firearm, say on patrol or guard duty in unfriendly territory, that bayonet is quite the reassurance.
@stanboyd5820
2 ай бұрын
The British were not averse to using the bayonet as a primary weapon and did use it to inflict casualties. The action at Paoli's Tavern in the American War of Independence (a night attack, no flints mounted in the firelocks) or again at Stoney Creek (poor old Yanks again) in a night action during the War of 1812. I believe a similar tactic was often used in battles in India too.
@penhullwolf5070
2 жыл бұрын
A pointy stick that goes Bang? What's not to like?
@RobG001
Жыл бұрын
Falkland War?? Methinks you mean The Falklands Conflict. War was never declared.. So I got told in no uncertain terms by my gf who served a couple of tours down there, with the British Army. :)
@paulhenderson5399
2 жыл бұрын
I believe (though I could be wrong) that Killiecrankie 27 July 1689 was the first recorded time plug bayonets were used in large numbers by the British Army.
@carthagemustbedestroyed
2 жыл бұрын
Interestingly, the word 槍 in chinese means both Spear and Gun.
@tbert9739
2 жыл бұрын
i wonder if perhaps Bayonet as a pocket knife became a very common use phrase, and it just evolved because soldiers would carry their bayonets on their belt or in a pouch, thereby making it a pocket knife or bayonet?
@davidbradley6040
2 жыл бұрын
Bayonet started out as a Hunter's weapon.The earliest version I traced was a French hunters plug bayonet with a brass blade
@manchagojohnsonmanchago6367
2 жыл бұрын
There is alot of nonsence being discussed here in these comments.. Bayonets appeared in Spain in the early 1500s.. They were plugged in daggers that were ramed in the muzzle.. They were first as civilian arms and slowly became military weapons. In Spain the hunting daggers.. Long after plug bayonets disappeared still are used by hunters even today you can see these forms in some traditional spanish hunting knives
@nicholas3354
Жыл бұрын
"Bayonnette : f. A kind of small flat pocket-dagger furnished with knives ; or a great knife to hang at the girdle like a dagger." -Cotgrave's "A Dictionarie of the French and English Tongues"
@petersmythe6462
2 жыл бұрын
Firearms (not guns) were part of warfare in China by the 900s. By the 1200s and 1300s, the paper firelance shaped charge warheads were essentially beginning to turn into stronger gun like barrels with dedicated blunderbuss-like shrapnel or projectiles. So here you have a spear with one or more gunpowder-driven barreled firearms attached.
@jamesvandemark2086
2 жыл бұрын
The issued bayonets for the M16A1 were utter crap. So, we bought the excellent Dutch ones. (troops will find a way)
@cwmyr
2 жыл бұрын
Philippine and Borneo blowguns (Sumpitan) especially those of the Dayak (sipet) have bayonets. I wonder when they started to do that.
@camillephilippon9594
2 жыл бұрын
The technique of shoving one's pig sticker knife or thin sword blade in the barrel to have a makeshift spear is documented very early with musketeers. What happened in Bayonne: during a fight the partisans were out of bullets and powder, they won with a makeshift lance charge. The weapon was never made in Bayonne, only the story gave the object its name. It was implemented in the "Régiment Royal artillerie" later, ending the role of infantry spearmen in the french army. To this day, french soldiers are still trained in jukendo and tankendo and other form of CQB combat. The last bayonet charge of the french army was in 1995 during a fight in Sarajevo, Bosnia to save french soldiers taken hostage after a serbian attack.
@2bingtim
2 жыл бұрын
Probably not the firrst, but .... Thanks Matt for having a STAB at bayonets. Still trying to work out boiling down bayonets & boiling daggers(?) earlier in the talk.
@stephengent9974
Жыл бұрын
Firearms were used decisively in Europe at the battle of Marignano in Italy , between the French and Spanish. In Japan the first decisive battle was in 1545. However Japan rapidly adopted firearms and was producing more than anyone else in that period. I have read accounts that the bayonet was developed from the hunting practices of the French, who attached knives to gun barrels for hunting boar. It was subsequently used by the military. The Chinese were never backward in going forward, and easily pre-dated many of our own achievements, like gunpowder for example. I am not surprised that they have the first record of bayonet use. The bayonet has become a multi use tool / weapon. I had a vietnam era American bayonet that paired with the scabbard could be used as wire cutters
@ashleysmith3106
2 жыл бұрын
Coincidental that on the same date Ian did a video on: Revolver with a Bayonet: Luxembourg Model 1884 Gendarmerie Nagant
@SampoPaalanen
2 жыл бұрын
Well we have some evidence of Gunblades (yes Final Fantasy didn't invent them though the FF version is pure fantasy) that is to say weapons with permanently fixed knives on them as a pseudo Bayonet essentially from the late 1500s, it wouldn't be too unrealistic to assume that someone went "you know that knife on my gun in fairly handy at close range, but rather awkward when I'm shooting what if there was a way I could only attach the blade to my gun when I need it" and you get early plug bayonets (which would also explain why it was invented in several places at once, it's not a major logical leap from stuff we know existed).
@DrVictorVasconcelos
Жыл бұрын
Actually, small arms also don't have a high kill rate. AFAIK it's like 10% in modern wars.
@amschind
2 жыл бұрын
I presume that there is an economic issue at play here as well. A tercio or Pike and Shot formation may be better than an army composed of infantry with muskets and bayonets IF the industrial/economic capacity does not yet exist to equip an entire army with guns. The most impressive example of this phenomenon, to me, is the Ferguson Rifle. The British army wasn't governed by fools who couldn't see the value in doubling every infantryman's rate of fire, but by men who recognized that there was absolutely no way to build anywhere near enough breechloaders to equip a meaningful number of soldiers. My guess is that for several centuries, the proportion of men in an army equipped with guns was limited by the number of guns that could be had, not by the desires of the powers that be. You would equip as many men as possible with muskets, and the rest get other weapons such as pikes; the alternative isn't "build more guns" but "have all the spear guys sit the battle out and cheer on their musket armed comrades". In that context, the value of a bayonet is markedly diminished and remains so until equipping the majority of your troops with guns becomes feasible.
@bradclifton5248
2 жыл бұрын
The perception of Ww1 bayonets says they were clumsy and unweildly still and, from trenches many did discard the in favour of all kinds of things including trenching spades because they, with machine gun fire, could move faster.
@faramund9865
Жыл бұрын
I thought of something while watching your videos about my grindstone. Something I had tried to find for ages and couldn't find, but now that I looked only for a few seconds, there it was. This happens so often, just so odd.
@flyboymike111357
Жыл бұрын
The Brits are the only ones still using a socket bayonet, which is weird, because with modern rifles going back to long handguards, silencers with flashiders on the end, and the weight of all other accessories a rifle needs, I can't think of a better way to mount a bayonet on a US Army rifle. Some of the mechanisms I've seen on the market are large and heavy. And just fixing a switchblade to the handguard would probably be to fragile, and you'd need quite a long one to clear the silencer. If you're going to have a flashider on the end of your silencer anyway, a socket bayonet could be used there just as easily as if it went right over a flashider directly attached to the muzzle.
@faves633
Жыл бұрын
I wager the reason the bayonet is generally thought of as a cavalry weapon is that- well outside of that it's a horrible weapon. It has a very predictable pattern of motion and for a weapon of it's size, it actually doesn't have a very good reach advantage, considering how it's held. One on one, rare is the person who would bet on a bayonet vs anything from a spear, to a sword to- well just a knife held in the hand, considering how UN-intuitive the weapon is to use. Sure, there are weapons it has a reach advantage over, but grabbing or deflecting it is easy with most of the weapon being a fire arm and having such a limited range of motion. However, pulling off or defending against a charge with a sword, knife or mace- not gonna happen. Not that spears and pikes wouldn't still work way better, but who was going to carry a spear AND a rifle?
@brandonly27
10 ай бұрын
The bayonet may not have caused a lot of casualties, but it gave the user more confidence in his hand-to-hand combat ability, whether or not it was founded.
@gregoryvigneault1824
Жыл бұрын
I just found on of those SMLE sword bayonets in the cellar and I can say it is an absolutely superb chopping weapon on it's own.
@Plastikdoom
2 жыл бұрын
Well the why is pretty simple we have fire stick that can kill knights at close ranges, let alone anyone else, of you hit them. But they shoot far slower than a bow, equal too a crossbow for war, maybe a little better or worse, it’s long and heavy can’t really carry any other effective weapons besides daggers…what if we make the dagger able to stick to the fire stick?, at the front, like a spear? Yes! You are genius, and they were, now you have a heavy, short spear you can shoot people with, or beat them with too, as it’s hard wood and iron/steel later on. Pure gold.
@OlegLyutov
Жыл бұрын
I wonder if fairbairn sykes dagger handle (one with the palm swell shifted towards the guard) is inspired by a plug bayonet…
@MrRideabighorse
2 жыл бұрын
Watching KZitem videos of royal guards being harassed by rude tourists their bayonets look very handy for dealing with the situation.
@Qaos
2 жыл бұрын
Are there documented cases o' people stabbing with their bayonet then shooting the firearm it's attached to at point-blank range? It seems like it would be a very lethal combination, but I've no idea if it was actually done.
@farkasmactavish
Жыл бұрын
When? After guns. Where? Places that had guns. Why? So that you could have a pointy thing on the end of your gun.
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