A spontoon, sometimes known by the variant spelling espontoon or as a half-pike, is a type of European polearm that came into being alongside the pike...
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similar to other types of polearm, such as the halberd, pike, ranseur, spontoon, ox tongue, or spetum. The arrival of practical firearms led to the obsolescence...
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fork Ox tongue spear Partisan Pike Plançon a picot Ranseur Sarissa Spetum Spontoon Trident Glaive Hoeroa (Māori, New Zealand) Iklwa (Zulu) Makrigga (Zande)...
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sergeants continued to carry halberds until 1793, when they were replaced by spontoons. The 18th-century halberd had, however, become simply a symbol of rank...
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A variety of polearms consisting of morning stars, halberds, partisans, spontoons, war scythes, and a ranseur in the center...
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the sergeants' spontoons would be bound together in a triangle frame to which the unfortunate soldier could be tied and lashed. Spontoons driven into the...
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considered distinctly Baltimorean. The word itself derives from that of the spontoon, a polearm carried by British Army infantry officers during the Revolutionary...
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suffix "amateur sport" from the name. The club's badge features a white spontoon or halberd—from where the club gets the nickname Gli Alabardati (The Halberded)—on...
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valaška (European) Sparth Axe (European) Tabarzin (Middle Eastern) Tomahawk, Spontoon Tomahawk, also thrown (American) Tlaximaltepoztli (American) Vechevoral...
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did not carry a musket, but instead used a type of short pike known as a spontoon. Ken Anderson Msc (2007). "The Early Days of Digital Computing in the British...
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was usual for grenadier officers; other officers carried a short pike or spontoon. Lord Robert Kerr was captain of the regiment's grenadier company and was...
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the heart-shaped blade may have been the ornate European pole-arm, the spontoon. The introduction of forged iron and steel knives from European settlers...
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British infantry in combat. To the left a colour sergeant with a spontoon....
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throwing weapon, the pipe tomahawk was a ceremonial and diplomatic tool. Spontoon tomahawk: A French trapper and Iroquois collaboration, this was an axe...
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Johnston 137 10 "Revolutionary War Spontoon" Signature blade (using steel springs) Revolutionary War sergeant's spontoon November 13, 2019 (2019-11-13) 0...
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Continental Army and attached militia units. Throughout the Napoleonic era, the spontoon, a type of shortened pike that typically had a pair of blades or lugs mounted...
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Barrell's regiment, received the first charging Cameron on the point of his Spontoon, but a second cut him through the head to chin. He has the dubious distinction...
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ceremonial spears meant as a badge of rank (similar to the later use of spontoons as symbols of authority), perhaps by royal somatophylakes ("bodyguards")...
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was painted in Rome in the uniform of the Suffolk Militia and carrying a spontoon over his shoulder. He was at the time Lord Lieutenant of Suffolk where...
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Knife-maker Shane Sibert resulted in a modern version of the Lewis and Clark spontoon tomahawk known as the "Comanche"; this tomahawk is also produced under...
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1830, sergeants in line infantry units no longer carried halberds or spontoons. The Rifle regiments used the Brunswick Rifle, which was first adopted...
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rendered obsolete on the battlefield. Its last flowering was the half-pike or spontoon, a shortened version of the pike carried by officers of various ranks....
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skirt of it and made three holes. I had almost forgot to tell you that my spontoon was shot through a little below my hand; this disabled it, but a French...
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is the only soldier in all the U.S. Armed Forces authorized to bear a spontoon and to salute with the left hand (although U.S. Navy personnel are allowed...
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on a much smaller scale, polearms (including sergeants equipped with spontoons and halberds). It also had some psychological effect for the wearer (effectively...
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(grenadier companies, from 1769), halberds or, from 1792 until 1830, with spontoons. They, as well as their counterparts in cavalry and artillery, were also...
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is reported to have received the leading Highlander on the point of his spontoon, but then a second cut him through the head to chin, making him the only...
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were shown, holding halberds to differentiate them from officers with spontoons. Hals seems to have initially intended an Amsterdam version of the same...
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broke into Burrel's, he received (it is said) the foremost man upon his spontoon, and was killed instantly, with many wounds "King's colour". National Museums...
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These corps are led by a drum major who delivers commands using a mace or spontoon. The United States Army Old Guard Fife and Drum Corps, raised in 1960 and...
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