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  • 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

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