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Italian-born fencing master who settled in Britain and became one of the most celebrated teachers of small-sword fencing in eighteenth-century London. His school helped define the fashionable Anglo-French school tradition, and his name became inseparable from the development of modern sportive fencing culture.
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German gymnastics educator, mathematician and fencing author who worked with Friedrich Ludwig Jahn and published manuals on cut-and-thrust fencing for the Berlin gymnastics school.
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Councillor at the Saxon electoral court and author of the illustrated Ringer-Kunst, printed at Wittenberg in 1539. He was still alive after 1540.
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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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German sculptor and draughtsman active in Augsburg. In 1533 he sketched an illustrated fight book containing sword, dagger and grappling material later used by Paulus Hector Mair.
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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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German fencing master associated with the academic and military fencing culture of Jena and Erlangen. Roux became one of the most important nineteenth-century exponents of German thrust and cut fencing, and his manuals on `Stoss` and `Hieb` systems helped codify German academic and pedagogical fencing practice.
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French military author and veteran associated with early nineteenth-century bayonet fencing. His École du tirailleur applied bayonet handling to infantry exercises and manoeuvres.
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Italian soldier and fencing master associated with Venice and the wider Italian rapier tradition. His `Scola, overo teatro` (1606) and second book of 1608 are highly regarded pedagogical texts and played a major role in the dissemination of seventeenth-century rapier fencing.
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German fencing master born in Hanover who worked as a university fencing master in Strasbourg; he belonged to a family of professional fencing instructors.
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Austrian-associated Freifechter and bodyguard to Cardinal Matthäus Lang von Wellenburg. His 1516 Vienna book was the first printed illustrated European fencing treatise and transmitted a simplified Liechtenauer-derived curriculum.
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