“En garde – un, deux!”: Military Sabre Fencing in Nineteenth-century Switzerland

This article presents recent research into military fencing in Switzerland, with a focus on manuals and regulation written to help instructors teach sabre fencing in Swiss officers’ schools. The publications discussed here, essentially sabre fencing manuals, can be grouped into a unique corpus based...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mathijs Roelofsen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Bern Open Publishing 2021-06-01
Series:Acta Periodica Duellatorum
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Online Access:https://bop.unibe.ch/apd/article/view/7814