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The Book of the Sword

Note 39 — Chapter I · PREAMBLE: ON THE ORIGIN OF WEAPONS.

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In the form called Manchette, or cutting at hand, wrist, and forearm with the inner edge. It is copiously described in iv. 45–54 of my New System of Sword Exercise, &c. (London: Clowes, 1876).

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