Sharpe's Sword - Part 10/12

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[iggle07]

i love it!!! i think they're taking capture the flag a little too seriously...

[darthhooker]

Is it me or is the Kings Colour a wee bit small, they look like they nicked it from a sea side shop in Blackpool

[PhinfanUK]

@ContinentalPatriot Where though. If it was doctrine, it must have happened been carried out somewhere. The only place I can think of its Vittoria, and even then there are conflicting reports.

[ContinentalPatriot]

@PhinfanUK It was in the military doctrine of the time. After a few volleys they would use the bayonet if they were close enough. They didn't want to waste ammunition on a campaign and a bayonet charge would save ammo and cause a morale drop among the enemy.

[PhinfanUK]

@ContinentalPatriot Where did this happen?

[ContinentalPatriot]

@PhinfanUK That is not true. They did charge even before the enemy broke. They used it as the determining factor, to win battles. A bayonet charge was a morale buster that caused a rout.

[PhinfanUK]

@LNER4771 I didn't say they didn't have bayonets. I said they didn't charge with them until the enemy had broken.

The Civil War isn't the Napoleonic War either.

[LNER4771]

@PhinfanUK

I agree with 50TNSCA. During the American Civil War, both the Union and Confederacy used bayonets attached to their rifles. I've known that since Second Grade when I learned it.

[GeneralAdvance]

@PhinfanUK i heard a theory on why that was recently from a historian, a soldier would rather stand metres away furiously reloading in the hope that they can shoot the enemy and get away unharmed than risk fighting with bayo's probably taking some really nasty wounds from the guys next to the one your trying to stab

[PhinfanUK]

@50TNCSA My ignorance on the US Civil war more than likely surpasses yours on the Napoleonic War, so I'll take your word for it. As far as I know, one of the only bayonet charges was made at Vittoria (portrayed in Sharpe's Justice, I think). Even then, there are reports from the field that say the British and French bayonets never actually crossed.

[50TNCSA]

@PhinfanUK excuse my ignorance of the napoleonic wars im really a us civil war intheausts and the bayonet was used quite a bit

[PhinfanUK]

@50TNCSA Considering that the style of bayonet for the Baker rifle is essentially a cut down version of a heavy cavalry sword, you might as well just use it as one. Then again, instances of bayonet fighting during the Napoleonic war was very rare indeed. One side or the other would usually break before it came to that. Once they ran, then the bayonet would be put to work.