The Socket Bayonet

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17th Century —
How did the 15 inch sized bayonets of the 17th century evolve by the 21st Century into a combat gadget the size of a pocket knife, that is still in widespread use today with armies across the world?

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Credit:
Created by Daniel Turner
Script: Conan White
Narrator:
Bryan ‘Lazlo’ Beauregard

Music Credit:
Five Armies by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100875
Artist: http://incompetech.com/

Sources:

Sword, Lance and Bayonet
By Charles ffoulkes, E.C. Hopkinson
Bayonet to Barrage: Weaponry on the Victorian Battlefield
By Stephen Manning
Manual of the Bayonet, United States Army, 1913
By Herschel Tupes

The Socket Bayonet