The 19th century finally saw the popularity of the 'sword bayonet'.

A sword bayonet could be used in combat as a side arm.

Twisting a sword bayonet in the wound was especially lethal.

Like sword bayonets, they can be used not only for thrusting, but also for cutting.

A knife about so long, and narrow enough to make a wound that looks like that of a sword bayonet.

The firing suddenly ended and royalists began to fight with sword bayonets, under the cries "Long live the king!"

The Baker rifle, Sharpe said, the sword bayonet, and me.

A shorter version of the sword bayonet, the knife bayonet, was developed.

However, the advantages of sword bayonets over spike bayonets are evident.

They took the long sword bayonets from their scabbards and slotted them onto the rifle muzzles.

He moved ponderously over to Roberts, drew from its scabbard the sword bayonet the other had at his hip.

As the rifle was shorter than the musket, it was issued with a 21-inch sword bayonet.

Sword bayonets originated for use with muzzle-loading rifles.

Today, sword bayonets of this style are said to have "yataghan" blades, or to be "yataghan-bladed".

The rifle was made both with and without a special bayonet lug which allowed the use of a sword bayonet.

He patted his sheathed sword bayonet.

Since rifles were shorter than muskets their bayonets needed to be longer to produce the same total length; the sword bayonet answered this need.

The Rifles retreated back behind their lines to reload and meet their enemy with their sword bayonets if necessary.

A sword bayonet is any long, knife-bladed bayonet designed for mounting on a musket or rifle.

Before the advent of modern medicine after World War I, a soldier struck by a sword bayonet was very unlikely to survive.

The standard infantry weapon was the Martini-Henry single-shot breech-loading rifle with a long sword bayonet.

The rifle also had a metal locking bar to accommodate a 24-inch sword bayonet, similar to that of the Jäger rifle.

A man kicked Sharpe in the face, Cooper caught the boot and raked his sword bayonet up the mans leg.

From 1869, some European nations began to develop new multi-purpose sword bayonets suitable for mass production and for use by police, pioneer, and engineer troops.