Shown here alongside a simpler muzzleloading carbine, possibly by Joseph Gulley of Oxford. Designed by Giuseppe Crespi, manufactured by Durs Egg c.1780′s~1810 in London, England for the civilian market and a possible adoption by some British cavalry regiments. .65 caliber ball, Crespi breechloading flintlock mechanism, leaf-bladed spear bayonet doubling as a muzzle cap when in storage. Although the notion of a spear bayonet in the hands of a cavalry regiment might conjure the idea that this thing was supposed to be used as a lance, the idea behind it had always been to merely compensate for a cavalry carbine’s short reach instead. Dragoons, who often fought dismounted, were particularly vulnerable to mounted enemies with a regular-sized bayonet.
Shown here alongside a simpler muzzleloading carbine, possibly by Joseph Gulley of Oxford. Designed by Giuseppe Crespi, manufactured by Durs Egg c.1780′s~1810 in London, England for the civilian market and a possible adoption by some British cavalry regiments. .65 caliber ball, Crespi breechloading flintlock mechanism, leaf-bladed spear bayonet doubling as a muzzle cap when in storage. Although the notion of a spear bayonet in the hands of a cavalry regiment might conjure the idea that this thing was supposed to be used as a lance, the idea behind it had always been to merely compensate for a cavalry carbine’s short reach instead. Dragoons, who often fought dismounted, were particularly vulnerable to mounted enemies with a regular-sized bayonet.
