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Recent Posts

• Foils, Daggers, Sabers, Bayonets, and Bowie Knives: An Interview at the Salle d’Armes of Colonel Thomas H. Monstery
• An Early American Fencing Controversy: the Broadsword versus the Smallsword, in Boston, 1808
• “Irish Swordsmanship: Fencing and Dueling in Eighteenth Century Ireland”
• Colonel Thomas Monstery, and the Training of America’s Swordswomen
• Vintage film footage of Kung Fu in Chinatown, New York City, 1930
• “An Hour with Mr. Egerton Castle,” 1898
• What is Classical Fencing? No, I mean really?
• Manly Exercises. The Broadsword and Single-Stick. Part IV.
• Manly Exercises. The Broadsword and Single-Stick. Part III.
• Manly Exercises. The Broadsword and Single-Stick. Part II.
• Manly Exercises. The Broadsword and Single-Stick.
• A History of Cane Self-Defense in America: 1798-1930
• Classical Fencing Defeats “Wild and Irregular” Fencing: The Tronchet-Senac Contest of 1887
• Cane and Umbrella Self-Defense, by the Marquis of Queensberry
• A “New System of Defence with the Bowie Knife” and the Strange Case of Mons. Bobij