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I don't care how they dress so long as they mind their fighting. -- Sir Thomas Picton |
Dagger(157 total words in this text)(3674 Reads)  Although not technically a dagger, the rondel, a stabbing weapon with triangular or rectangular cross-section, is commonly included in the term. Some daggers also have weighted blades, and are meant for throwing at enemies. The weighted blade provided momentum and accuracy. A dagger is more a weapon made for thrusting than a tool for slicing and cutting. The earliest daggers appear in the Bronze Age, in the 3rd millennium BCE, predating the sword, which essentially developed from oversized daggers. Daggers were important secondary weapons in Europe during the Middle Ages and the renaissance. A modern version of the dagger is the bayonet, which becomes a spear type weapon when mounted on the barrel of a rifle. |
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1775:
In Massachusetts, British troops march out of Boston on a mission to confiscate the Patriot arsenal at Concord and to capture Patriot leaders Samuel Adams and John Hancock, known to be hiding at Lexington. As the British departed, Boston Patriots Paul Revere and William Dawes set out on horseback from the city to warn Adams and Hancock and rouse the Patriot minutemen.
1847: U.S. forces defeat Mexicans at Cerro Gordo in one of the bloodiest battle of the war. 1864: At Poison Springs, Arkansas, Confederate soldiers under the command of General Samuel Maxey capture a Union forage train and slaughter black troops escorting the expedition. 1885: The Sino-Japanese war ends. 1943: Traveling in a bomber, Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, the mastermind of the attack on Pearl Harbor, is shot down by American P-38 fighters. 1983: A suicide bomber kills U.S. Marines at the U.S. Embassy in Lebanon. |
