Oakeshott, Ewart, The Sword in the Age of Chivalry 1964 | see article in German Wikipedia |
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[ ] Following their campaign in the Netherlands in 1672 when many of these German-made swords were captured from the Dutch , the French began producing this weapon as their first regulation sword | "The words "claymore" and "broadsword"" |
The most common hilt type featured a double shell guard and half-basket, though examples exist with hand protection ranging from a shell and single to a full basket.
By the 17th century there were regional variations of basket-hilts: the Walloon hilt, the Sinclair hilt, schiavona, mortuary sword, Scottish broadsword, and some types of eastern European pallasches | The mortuary and claybeg variants were commonly used in the British isles, whether domestically produced or acquired through trade with Italy and Germany |
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At range, this strategy would do little against musket armed troops firing in volleys or using while effective against bayonets, the target would not fare so well against a musket ball , which necessitated tactics such as the "", which required a Jacobite war band to close with their targets as quickly as possible, normally under heavy fire, using the smoke from musket and cannon fire to cover the last leg of the assault before attacking the line | Portrait of Donald McBane, a Scottish fencing master, from Donald McBane's The Expert Swordsman's Companion 1728 |
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On average the blade of a Sinclair or "compound" hilt sword measured 38in | They also influenced the 18th-century cavalry |
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European Weapons and Armour: From the Renaissance to the Industrial Revolution | The term "broadsword" was used in the 17th and 18th centuries, referring to double-edged basket-hilted swords |
The Sinclair hilt broadsword influenced the development of the basket-hilted broadsword, which was used by in the 17th and 18th century.
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