4/17/2023 0 Comments Socket bayonette markingsDuring late 1757 new militia regulations were being enacted and on February 9, 1758, the new laws were published in the Boston Newsletter. By the mid-18th century, it was realized that a bayonet attached to a musket or civilian hunting gun would be important to the militia. Early forms have a flat blade and look to be of fairly crude manufacture. They seem to have come over to North America in the early 18th century. The socket bayonet in the British army came into use around the turn of the 18th century. Since most of my research is Massachusetts centric, I have to rely on that info when talking about this period. In this blog I’m going to go back to the use of the socket bayonet in the days before the Revolution. bayonets from the American Revolution to today and how it is an affordable way to collect early material. A while back I talked about collecting U.S.
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