In a military context, let us consider obsolete to mean no longer issued to line infantry. Which pushes it back quite a way, to the advent of the socket bayonet, and arguably further. But (like the partisan) swords were issued to to officers in a semi ceremonial way--as batons, as a symbol of authority. And officers have kept the, basically to his day as such.
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In a military context, let us consider obsolete to mean no longer issued to line infantry. Which pushes it back quite a way, to the advent of the socket bayonet, and arguably further. But (like the partisan) swords were issued to to officers in a semi ceremonial way--as batons, as a symbol of authority. And officers have kept the, basically to his day as such.