Uploaded February 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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This is designed as a simple go to beginner guide to British military sabre, or swordsmanship, in the Napoleonic era. Drawing on popular training manuals of the era such as Roworth's Art of Defence on Foot, as well as Mathewson, Angelo, Gordon and Le Marchant.

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