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Actually Nathan, that isn't quite true for the period I am looking at. In the 18th Century/Napoleonic Era, and even sometime thereafter, most European heavy and medium cavalry (Curassiers, Carbiners, Dragoons, Horse Grenadiers) used a straight bladed broadsword, mostly basket hilted, which bears a s...

Well, two minor things Gene: Dr. Mezmer was denounced as a fraud in the early 19th Century, an era when a lot of quackery was accepted by manistream medicine. From what I know of it, he was attacked because his idea was new, not because it was wrong. (Though it may well have also been wrong.) He was...

We have seen that most aspects of Asian martial arts also existed in Europe, doubtless for the simple reason that human beings, with identical faculties of reasoning, and similar direct experiences would logically come to the same basic conclusions. In Asia, martial arts were also heavily associated...

For clarification, which of these statements would be more accurate: a.)later military swordsmanship was a sterile, formalized descendent of Renaissance battlefield techniques, similar to what occured in Japanese martial arts after the end of the Warring States period. or b.)later military swordsman...

I hope this isn't considerd off-topic. My question is, how much direct relationship is there between sword techniques used by cavalry, naval personnel and other military personnel of the 18th and 19th Centuries who used heavier (non-smallsword) type weapons, and their Renaissance predecessors? It wo...