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British Army officer, antiquarian and fencing author who helped revive historical fencing in late Victorian Britain and became the first president of the Amateur Fencing Association in 1901.
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British author, antiquarian, swordsman, and one of the most influential Victorian historians of fencing. His `Schools and Masters of Fence` became a classic reference work for the historical study of European swordsmanship and helped shape modern antiquarian and early reconstruction interest in historical fencing.
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British government department responsible for administering the Army. In this catalogue it is used as the collective author of officially issued sword, bayonet and cavalry exercise manuals.
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Scottish gentleman, baronet, and one of the most important British authors on smallsword and self-defence in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Through works such as `The Scots Fencing Master`, `The Compleat Fencing-Master`, and `A New, Short, and Easy Method of Fencing`, he helped shape the British printed tradition on fencing, duelling, and practical sword use.
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English gentleman and polemical fencing writer best known for `Paradoxes of Defence` (1599). Silver defended what he saw as traditional English combat methods and criticized imported Italian rapier play, making him one of the most important English voices in the history of fencing theory.
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British Army administrative office at Horse Guards, represented as the collective issuing authority for official cavalry and sword-exercise publications.
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British fencing master of the Angelo dynasty who succeeded to the family school and served as superintendent of sword exercise to the British Army and Royal Navy.
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British militia captain, honorary secretary of the London Fencing Club and author of practical works on foil fencing for military instructors and other students.
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British fencing and gymnastics master of the Roland family, active at the Royal Academy in Edinburgh and author of manuals on fencing and physical exercise.
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British fencing master and memoirist, son of Domenico Angelo, who continued the Angelo family’s central role in British fencing culture. He published fencing-related works and later reminiscences, preserving both technical traditions and valuable social history about fencing circles in Britain.
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English cleric proposed in modern scholarship as the author of Of Knyghthode and Bataile, a Middle English verse adaptation of Vegetius produced around 1460; the attribution remains disputed.
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English engraver, antiquary and writer whose illustrated studies of English customs, dress, games and pastimes preserve important evidence for historical martial and sporting practices.
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