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Author : Donald McBane
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ISBN 13 : 9780992673550
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Expert Sword-Man's Companion, 1728 written by Donald McBane and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Donald McBane
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780992673550
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Expert Sword-Man's Companion, 1728 written by Donald McBane and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Donald McBane
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ISBN 13 : 9781542618328
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Expert Sword-Man's Companion: Or the True Art of SELF-DEFENCE. with an ACCOUNT of the Authors LIFE, and His Transactions During the Wars with France written by Donald McBane and published by . This book was released on 2017-01-20 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new edition is a faithful transcription presented with meticulously restored illustrations. Donald McBane was a Scottish Highlander and one of the most accomplished duelists of the 18th century. During the span of his extraordinary career as a soldier, prize fighter, fencing master, and brothel manager, McBane took part in 16 battles, 15 skirmishes, and nearly 100 duels or personal combats. He published his book, The Expert Sword-Man's Companion, in 1728 where he recounts it all. The first section of McBane's treatise covers the use of a large number of arms, including the backsword, small-sword, spadroon, quarterstaff, sword and targe, sword and buckler, Spanish rapier, Portuguese rapier, sword and dagger, Dutch knife, Lochaber axe, pike, halberd, falchion, sword and pistol, dueling pistol, and broadsword on horseback. No other known extant British fencing treatise published during the eighteenth century includes such an eclectic mix of weapons. McBane also includes a unique section on "dirty tricks" used by other swordsmen of the time, and methods of how to defend against them. The second section of the book is McBane's memoir of his adventurous life, declared by one historian to be "possibly, the most ingenuous autobiography in the English language." In this new edition, many of the incredible details related by McBane have been verified for the first time. McBane claimed to have fought a total of thirty-seven prize fights, but he provides few details about them, mentioning the name of only one of his antagonists. Thanks to the diligent research of Ben Miller, numerous specimens of McBane's original challenges are included in this publication. These contests pitted McBane against some of the most celebrated gladiators of the period, including James Miller (who later authored a treatise on fencing), the infamous (and nearly undefeated) James Figg, and even Figg's fencing master, Timothy Buck. This books provides a fascinating glimpse into the mind, life, times, and combative techniques of one of the eighteenth century's most unusual and formidable real-life characters.
Author : Egerton Castle
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)
Download or read book Schools and Masters of Fence written by Egerton Castle and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Donald McBane
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Expert Sword-man's Companion: Or The True Art of Self-defence written by Donald McBane and published by . This book was released on 1728 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Christopher Scott Thompson
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ISBN 13 : 9780359139637
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)
Download or read book Lessons of the Broadsword Masters written by Christopher Scott Thompson and published by . This book was released on 2018-08-24 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most comprehensive book ever written on the art of fencing with the basket-hilted Highland broadsword, including every major technique and concept from broadsword and backsword masters Donald McBane (1728), Thomas Page (1746), Andrew Lonnergan (1771), Captain G. Sinclair (1790), Archibald MacGregor (1791), Henry Angelo (1799), John Taylor (1804), and Thomas Mathewson (1805). Includes: Fundamental Skills Plain Playing Timing Slipping the Leg Slipping the Body Double Attacks The Feint The Invitation Actions on the Blade Disarms Counter-Disarms Set Play Loose Play The Grounds of the Sword Traversing Footwork Double Weapons (sword and targe, sword and buckler, sword and dagger, etc.) The style of the stage gladiators The style of the Highland Regiments The training curriculum of the Cateran Society The history of broadsword and backsword fencing Nearly 500 separate training exercises
Author : Keith Farrell (Martial artist)
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ISBN 13 : 9780992673505
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.0X/5 ( download)
Download or read book AHA German Longsword Study Guide written by Keith Farrell (Martial artist) and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Andrew Lang
Publisher : IndyPublish.com
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)
Download or read book Books and Bookmen written by Andrew Lang and published by IndyPublish.com. This book was released on 1887 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lyman Horace Weeks
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)
Download or read book Prominent Families of New York written by Lyman Horace Weeks and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : C.C. Baldwin
Publisher : Рипол Классик
ISBN 13 : 5874721363
Total Pages : 989 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Baldwin genealogy from 1500 to 1881 written by C.C. Baldwin and published by Рипол Классик. This book was released on 1991 with total page 989 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
