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Download or read book Fix Bayonets! written by John Norris and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2016-01-03 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bayonet is an essential item of a soldier's kit even on today's modern hi-tech battlefield. This work examines the origins of this humble weapon and the 'cult of the bayonet' as espoused by the Russian General Alexander Suvorov who asserted that The bullet misses, the bayonet does not. The first bayonets appeared in France in the early 17th century and soon they were being used by every army in Europe. The author examines the spread of this simple weapon and how it led to fundamental changes being made in battlefield tactics. Over 300 years later, in the age of hi-tech warfare and weapons of mass destruction, the bayonet is still in service with armies around the world. British and US forces in Afghanistan regularly have their bayonets fixed. Fix Bayonets illustrates how tactics changed and the design of the weapon, although fundamentally the same, has evolved over the centuries.Much myth and legend surrounds the subject of bayonet charges and the weapon has become an icon of defiance and the determination to do whatever it takes to win. The author examines evidence for the reality of such actions. How did the ordinary soldier feel to be told 'fix bayonets'? John Norris draws on personal accounts of soldiers using bayonets in combat from the Napoleonic and Crimean Wars, various Colonial campaigns, through the World Wars, Falklands War and into the 21st century in Afghanistan. In so doing he explains the seemingly anachronistic survival of this simple weapon on the modern battlefield.
Book Synopsis The Pictorial Field-book of the Revolution ; Or, Illustrations, by Pen and Pencil, of the History, Biography, Scenery, Relics, and Traditions of the War for Independence by : Benson John Lossing
Download or read book The Pictorial Field-book of the Revolution ; Or, Illustrations, by Pen and Pencil, of the History, Biography, Scenery, Relics, and Traditions of the War for Independence written by Benson John Lossing and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 948 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis With Zeal and With Bayonets Only by : Matthew H. Spring
Download or read book With Zeal and With Bayonets Only written by Matthew H. Spring and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2012-11-08 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The image is indelible: densely packed lines of slow-moving Redcoats picked off by American sharpshooters. Now Matthew H. Spring reveals how British infantry in the American Revolutionary War really fought. This groundbreaking book offers a new analysis of the British Army during the “American rebellion” at both operational and tactical levels. Presenting fresh insights into the speed of British tactical movements, Spring discloses how the system for training the army prior to 1775 was overhauled and adapted to the peculiar conditions confronting it in North America. First scrutinizing such operational problems as logistics, manpower shortages, and poor intelligence, Spring then focuses on battlefield tactics to examine how troops marched to the battlefield, deployed, advanced, and fought. In particular, he documents the use of turning movements, the loosening of formations, and a reliance on bayonet-oriented shock tactics, and he also highlights the army’s ability to tailor its tactical methods to local conditions. Written with flair and a wealth of details that will engage scholars and history enthusiasts alike, With Zeal and with Bayonets Only offers a thorough reinterpretation of how the British Army’s North American campaign progressed and invites serious reassessment of most of its battles.
Book Synopsis Canadian Pen and Ink Sketches by : John Fraser
Download or read book Canadian Pen and Ink Sketches written by John Fraser and published by Gazette Printing Company. This book was released on 1890 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The pictorial field-book of the Revolution; or, Illustrations, by pen and pencil, of the ... War for independence by : Benson John Lossing
Download or read book The pictorial field-book of the Revolution; or, Illustrations, by pen and pencil, of the ... War for independence written by Benson John Lossing and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Mosaic Fictions by : Emily Robins Sharpe
Download or read book Mosaic Fictions written by Emily Robins Sharpe and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2020-03-26 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mosaic Fictions reveals the tensions between national and global affiliations in Spanish Civil War literature, highlighting writers such as Leonard Cohen, Dorothy Livesay, and Mordecai Richler.
Book Synopsis Journal of the Royal United Service Institution by : Royal United Services Institute for Defence Studies
Download or read book Journal of the Royal United Service Institution written by Royal United Services Institute for Defence Studies and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Benjamin Franklin written by Harold Bloom and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents important literary criticism of selected works by Benjamin Franklin.
Book Synopsis Proceedings of the ... Consecutive Constitutional Convention ... by : United Mine Workers of America
Download or read book Proceedings of the ... Consecutive Constitutional Convention ... written by United Mine Workers of America and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 1794 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Proceedings of The...constitutional Convention of the United Mine Workers of America by : United Mine Workers of America
Download or read book Proceedings of The...constitutional Convention of the United Mine Workers of America written by United Mine Workers of America and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 1516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Proceedings of the ... Annual Convention ... by : United Mine Workers of America
Download or read book Proceedings of the ... Annual Convention ... written by United Mine Workers of America and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 826 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Great Britain for Little Britons by : Eleanor A. Bulley
Download or read book Great Britain for Little Britons written by Eleanor A. Bulley and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Arena written by and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 818 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Bayonet written by Bill Harriman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-04-15 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although muskets delivered devastating projectiles at comparatively long ranges, their slow rate of fire left the soldier very vulnerable while reloading, and early muskets were useless for close-quarter fighting. Consequently, European infantry regiments of the 17th century were composed of both musketeers and pikemen, who protected the musketeers while loading but also formed the shock component for close-quarter combat. The development of the flintlock musket produced a much less cumbersome and faster-firing firearm. When a short knife was stuck into its muzzle, every soldier could be armed with a missile weapon as well as one that could be used for close combat. The only disadvantage was that the musket could not be loaded or fired while the plug bayonet was in place. The socket bayonet solved this problem and the musket/bayonet combination became the universal infantry weapon from c.1700 to c.1870. The advent of shorter rifled firearms saw the attachment of short swords to rifle barrels. Their longer blades still gave the infantryman the 'reach' that contemporaries believed he needed to fend off cavalry attacks. The perfection of the small-bore magazine rifle in the 1890s saw the bayonet lose its tactical importance, becoming smaller and more knife-like, a trend that continued in the world wars. When assault rifles predominated from the 1950s onwards, the bayonet became a weapon of last resort. Its potential usefulness continued to be recognized, but its blade was often combined with an item with some additional function, most notably a wire-cutter. Ultimately, for all its fearsome reputation as a visceral, close-quarter fighting weapon, the bayonet's greatest impact was actually as a psychological weapon. Featuring full-colour artwork as well as archive and close-up photographs, this is the absorbing story of the complementary weapon to every soldier's firearm from the army of Louis XIV to modern-day forces in all global theatres of conflict.
Download or read book African Concord written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 934 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Picturesque America; Or, the Land We Live In. A Delineation by Pen and Pencil of the Mountains ... by : William Cullen Bryant
Download or read book Picturesque America; Or, the Land We Live In. A Delineation by Pen and Pencil of the Mountains ... written by William Cullen Bryant and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Political Philosophy in Japan by : Christopher Goto-Jones
Download or read book Political Philosophy in Japan written by Christopher Goto-Jones and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-01-30 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Political Philosophy in Japan focuses on the politics of Japan's pre-eminent philosophical school - the Kyoto School - and particularly that of its founder, Nishida Kitarô (1870-1945). Existing literature on Nishida is dismissive of there being serious political content in his work, and of the political stance of the wider school. Goto-Jones contends that, far from being apolitical, Nishida's philosophy was explicitly and intentionally political, and that a proper political reading of Nishida sheds new light on the controversies surrounding the alleged complicity of the Kyoto School in Japanese ultra-nationalism. This book offers a unique and potentially controversial view of the subject of Nishida and the Kyoto School.
