| 1. | However, the advantages of sword bayonets over spike bayonets are evident.
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| 2. | Twisting a sword bayonet in the wound was especially lethal.
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| 3. | A shorter version of the sword bayonet, the knife bayonet, was developed.
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| 4. | Like sword bayonets, they can be used not only for thrusting, but also for cutting.
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| 5. | He should say that the injuries could not have been inflicted by a bayonet or a sword bayonet.
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| 6. | Where a spike bayonet turns the rifle into a spear, a sword bayonet turns it into a glaive.
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| 7. | By the end of the nineteenth century all infantry had become riflemen and the sword bayonet had become the standard infantry bayonet.
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| 8. | Before the advent of modern medicine after World War I, a soldier struck by a sword bayonet was very unlikely to survive.
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| 9. | Today, sword bayonets of this style are said to have " yataghan " blades, or to be " yataghan-bladed ".
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| 10. | Since rifles were shorter than muskets their bayonets needed to be longer to produce the same total length; the sword bayonet answered this need.
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