Bayonets may have been made for hunters in Europe sometime in the sixteenth century. They were introduced as military weapons in France in the next century, with their earliest recorded use being1642. The bayonet at first was simply a dagger with a...

A bayonet (from French baïonnette) is a knife- or dagger-shaped weapon designed to fit on or over the muzzle of a rifle barrel or similar weapon, effectively turning the gun into a spear. It is a close-combat or last-resort...

It was a civilian who said: 'You can do anything with bayonets except sit on them.'1 Frontline soldiers in the First and second World Wars have been less convinced. Jean Norton Cru, of the French Army, claimed that between October 1914 and November 1918...

Jo-Ann Mort Forward 08-18-1995 Babies and Bayonets. JERUSALEM -- When Rabbi Shlomo Riskin was the spiritual leader of Manhattan's Lincoln Square Synagogue, he was credited with bringing a modern Orthodoxy to a new generation of American Jews. Rabbi Riskin has had, up...

The 21 South Koreans held hostage by the Taliban in Afghanistan said Wednesday that the insurgents used bayonets and beatings to pressure some of them to convert to Islam, but that a few were relatively well treated by their captors."We were beaten by them many...

The 21 South Koreans held hostage by the Taliban in Afghanistan said Wednesday that the insurgents used bayonets and beatings to pressure some of them to convert to Islam, but that a few were relatively well treated by their captors."We were beaten by them many...