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British politician, philanthropist and leading abolitionist; his 1797 Practical View includes a section condemning duelling within its critique of prevailing Christian morals.
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British fencing master known from The Fencer’s Manual, printed at Chatham in 1840. The first edition contains forty-seven pages and twelve numbered lithographic plates illustrating the principal parades.
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Polish nobleman, cavalry commander, Napoleonic general and political figure. Wincenty Korwin Krasiński raised and commanded Polish light cavalry in Napoleon’s service and published an 1811 essay on handling the lance.
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Catalogue authority heading WINN, associated in the reviewed records as author of “Handbook of Athletic Sports, vol. III: Boxing, Wrestling, Fencing, Broadsword and Single-Stick” (1890). The surviving sources used by this catalogue do not support a safe expansion of the heading or secure life dates; it is retained explicitly as an unresolved historical attribution.
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Catalogue authority heading WINTZLEBEN, associated in the reviewed records as author of “Duplicate short-title pointer: Den Adelige Fegte-Kunst (1756)” (Kiøbenhavn). The surviving sources used by this catalogue do not support a safe expansion of the heading or secure life dates; it is retained explicitly as an unresolved historical attribution.
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Catalogue authority heading WOLFF, associated in the reviewed records as author of “Specimen philosophium de duello” (1786). The surviving sources used by this catalogue do not support a safe expansion of the heading or secure life dates; it is retained explicitly as an unresolved historical attribution.
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English author of `The English Master of Defence`, a wide-ranging early eighteenth-century manual covering smallsword, backsword, quarterstaff, and wrestling. He is relevant not only as a fencing writer but also as a representative of the broader British self-defence tradition that treated multiple weapons and unarmed play within a single practical framework.
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