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French fencing master of the city and academy of Toulouse. He published influential practical works on smallsword fencing in 1696 and 1701; his earlier 1690 witness and Andrew Mahon’s 1735 English translation belong to the same work family.
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French nobleman, military commander, Marshal of France and founding knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece. Jehan de Villiers de L’Isle-Adam served the Burgundian cause during the Hundred Years’ War and composed a judicial-duel treatise in 1435.
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German fencing master whose teachings on long sword and other weapons survive in sixteenth-century manuscript witnesses. His precise identity and life dates remain unresolved.
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German military officer, tactician and writer. Bibliographical attribution assigns to him both Die Fechtkunst auf Universitäten and a systematic 1802 manual on thrust and cut fencing for officers and military schools.
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German soldier, captain and influential military writer, also known as Johann Jacobi. Wallhausen produced extensively illustrated manuals on infantry, cavalry, drill, weapons and military organisation and briefly directed the military school at Siegen.
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English editor and miscellaneous writer of Irish parentage. John Doran wrote on manners, antiquities, theatre and social history; the catalogued Habits and Men and Knights and Their Days are among his characteristic historical works.
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English antiquary and specialist in medieval arms and armour. John Hewitt authored Ancient Armour and Weapons in Europe and edited a later edition of Charles Alfred Stothard’s Monumental Effigies of Great Britain.
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British sword manufacturer, fencing enthusiast and writer. He joined Henry Wilkinson’s firm in the 1840s, took over the business in 1861, and published technical observations including The Shape of Sword Blades.
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Spanish fencing master and author of an extensive 1854 treatise on foil, infantry sabre and cavalry practice, followed by a distinct 1861 manual on bayonet fencing printed in Havana.
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Portuguese-born military officer and author active in the Brazilian imperial context, known for instructional works on sword and cavalry exercise. Conflicting reports place his death in 1863 or 1864.
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German university fencing master active at Bonn and author of practical manuals on cut fencing with basket-hilted rapier, sabre and pallasch and on thrust fencing.
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British author of `The Only Approved Guide through All the Stages of a Quarrel`, a nineteenth-century handbook on duelling practice, honour culture, and the management of quarrels. He belongs to the later printed phase of duel literature, when codification, etiquette, and retrospective commentary increasingly replaced the technical sword treatise proper.
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