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to entrenching equipment when it was needed. As one US army infantry officer noted, "the intrenching tools of an army rarely get up to the front until the exigency for their use has passed."

Trowel bayonet

In 1870, the U.S. Army introduced the trowel bayonet, intended for individual soldiers as both a weapon and an entrenching tool. This was followed by the development of separate trowel and spade tools, small one-hand implements that could be carried as part of a soldier's individual equipment.

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