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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.
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  • A History of Cane Self-Defense in America: 1798-1930
  • Classical Fencing Defeats “Wild and Irregular” Fencing: The Tronchet-Senac Contest of 1887
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    African American Soldiers fight off 24 Germans with Bolo Knives during World War I
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    African American Knife-Fighters of Old New York
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    A History of Cane Self-Defense in America: 1798-1930
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    Foils, Daggers, Sabers, Bayonets, and Bowie Knives: An Interview at the Salle d'Armes of Colonel Thomas H. Monstery
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    Historic World War II Film Footage of Filipino Martial Arts Training with Bolo Knives
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    "Filipinos Carry Bolo Knives" in World War II
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    Colonel Thomas H. Monstery and the Use of the Quarterstaff
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    Colonel Thomas Monstery, and the Training of Jaguarina, America's Champion Swordswoman

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