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A British cavalry sergeant major instructs an American soldier in bayonet charging at Texas’ Camp Dick. Although the bayonet was developed in the early 17th century in Bayonne (that’s why it’s called “baïonnette”), it was during World War One that this weapon acquired a very well-known paper. Whereas in World War Two weapons had a great range of fire, at the beginning of WWI arms had to be loaded in a very complicated way. With the war staged in the trenches, the sense of a bayonet charge had already extinguished. Attacks like those in the American Revolutionary War could no longer be performed. This eventually lead to soldiers to use bayonets in order to open cans, play games in the mud and, of course, defend themselves against surprise attacks.