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[edit] Origins of word: Bayonet
At the time of writing, this article states that the term bayonet grew from the town's armaments industry. However, the article Bayonet includes the following statement:
- The evolution of the bayonet can be traced to a certain extent to a fortuitous accident. In the mid-17th century irregular military conflicts of rural France, the peasants of the Southern French town of Bayonne, having run out of powder and shot, rammed their long-bladed hunting knives into the muzzles of their primitive muskets to fashion impromptu spears, and by necessity created an ancillary weapon that was to influence Western European infantry tactics until the early 20th century.
Can anybody say which story (possibly both) is right? 62.239.24.22 13:23, 3 November 2005 (UTC)
