HEMA Authors and Fencing Masters

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John Cunningham Kelton

United States 1828 - 1893 fl. 1851–1892

United States Army officer, West Point graduate and military administrator who became Adjutant General of the Army. John Cunningham Kelton authored a practical bayonet manual for United States Army and militia instruction.

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John Davies

John Davies is represented in the reviewed catalogue records as author of “Composite archival locator: Codicum manuscripts on lawful combat and duelling”. No additional biographical identity or secure life dates are asserted beyond these linked manifestations.

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John Davies (Latimer Redivivus)

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John Disney

United Kingdom 1677 - 1730 fl. 1701–1729

English clergyman and writer on law, morality, and social discipline. His 1729 survey of ancient laws includes duelling among the offences treated.

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John Dunlop

fl. 1843

John Dunlop is represented in the reviewed catalogue records as author of “Anti-Duel, or a plan for the abrogation of Duelling, which has been tried and found successful” (1843). No additional biographical identity or secure life dates are asserted beyond these linked manifestations.

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John Gaspard Le Marchant

United Kingdom 1766 - 1812

British cavalry major-general who devised the 1796 sword exercise and later helped found the Royal Military College.

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John Geddes

United Kingdom 1735 - 1799

Scottish Catholic prelate, rector of the Royal Scots College at Valladolid and author of Reflections on Duelling and on the Most Effectual Means of Preventing It (1790).

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John Gideon Millingen

fl. 1841

John Gideon Millingen is represented in the reviewed catalogue records as author of “History of Duelling: including narrativesof the most remarkable personal encounters that have taken place from the earliest period to the present time. 2 vols” (1841). No additional biographical identity or secure life dates are asserted beyond these linked manifestations.

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John Godfrey

United Kingdom 1747

British army captain and martial writer best known for `A Treatise upon the Useful Science of Defence`. His work is especially important because it links smallsword, backsword, and boxing within a single analytical framework, preserving valuable observations on practice, timing, measure, and the fighting culture of eighteenth-century Britain.

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John Holbrook

fl. 1727

John Holbrook is represented in the reviewed catalogue records as author of “Against Duelling” (1727). No additional biographical identity or secure life dates are asserted beyond these linked manifestations.

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John Musgrave Waite

United Kingdom 1838 - 1915 fl. 1880–1884

British fencing master and former member of the 2nd Life Guards, author of the illustrated 1880 manual Lessons in Sabre, Singlestick, Sabre and Bayonet, and Sword Feats.

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John Railton

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