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...

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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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...

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...

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...

A variety of polearms consisting of morning stars, halberds, partisans, spontoons, war scythes, and a ranseur in the center...

considered distinctly Baltimorean. The word itself derives from that of the spontoon, a polearm carried by British Army infantry officers during the Revolutionary...

British infantry in combat. To the left a colour sergeant with a spontoon....

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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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...

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...

throwing weapon, the pipe tomahawk was a ceremonial and diplomatic tool. Spontoon tomahawk: A French trapper and Iroquois collaboration, this was an axe...

ceremonial spears meant as a badge of rank (similar to the later use of spontoons as symbols of authority), perhaps by royal somatophylakes ("bodyguards")...

Johnston  137 10 "Revolutionary War Spontoon" Signature blade (using steel springs) Revolutionary War sergeant's spontoon November 13, 2019 (2019-11-13) 0...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

on a much smaller scale, polearms (including sergeants equipped with spontoons and halberds). It also had some psychological effect for the wearer (effectively...

1830, sergeants in line infantry units no longer carried halberds or spontoons. The Rifle regiments used the Brunswick Rifle, which was first adopted...

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...

(grenadier companies, from 1769), halberds or, from 1792 until 1830, with spontoons. They, as well as their counterparts in cavalry and artillery, were also...

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...

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...

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...

were shown, holding halberds to differentiate them from officers with spontoons. Hals seems to have initially intended an Amsterdam version of the same...