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  1. www.priaulxlibrary.co.uk › articles › articleSword Exercise of the Cavalry - Priaulx Library

    Le Marchant rolled out the drill to centres across the country; the first printing of 1000 copies sold out in six weeks and the book became a favourite of the King. Le Marchant was promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel in the 7 th dragoons and spent his time teaching horsemanship in Tunbridge Wells. He continued to write, and published The Duty of ...

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  2. bop.unibe.ch › apd › articleThe Sword Exercises of the British Cavalry: 1796-1858

    Oct 15, 2020 · From the late eighteenth century the British military produced official ‘fight books’ outlining the methods with which the cavalry were to use their swords. As these ‘fight books’ were military manuals for instructors, designed to turn trainees into effective soldiers they are, for the most part, clear and precise compared to the sometimes esoteric nature of earlier ‘fight books’.

    • Henry Yallop
    • 2020

  3. www.researchgate.net › publication › 346352597_TheThe Sword Exercises of the British Cavalry: 1796-1858

    Oct 15, 2020 · Acta Periodica Duellatorum 8/1, 2020, The Sword Exercise s of the British Cavalry: 1796-1858 139. Although written for a single regiment of volunteers, Hungarian & Highland Broad Sword. was ...

  4. www.academia.edu › 80554800 › The_Sword_Exercises_of(PDF) The Sword Exercises of the British Cavalry: 1796-1858 ...

    124 Acta Periodica Duellatorum 8/1, 2020,The Sword Exercises of the British Cavalry: 1796-1858 making use of his royal patronage Le Marchant was able to have his Exercise approved, centrally issued and widely disseminated,7 providing the whole of British cavalry with their first specific treatise on swordsmanship: their first centrally standardised ‘fight book’.

    • Henry Yallop

  5. www.priaulxlibrary.co.uk › articles › articleMilitia Drills, early 18th-century - Priaulx Library

    The Library has in its extensive local militia collection a photocopy of what was no doubt a most invaluable document in its time: a suggested drill, and loading instructions for the flintlock musket, written in the early 18th century for the officers of the Guernsey militia by Phillips Loggers. The booklet is signed by Loggers, who is as yet ...

  6. swordfight.uk › wp-content › uploadsWITH THE BROAD SWORD AND SABRE - swordfight.uk

    La Marchant also left us with a very useful illustration (next page) on the grip used with sabre. Varying from what we would call hammer grip, to handshake grip, depending on the action. This is different to the thumb on the back being the norm with spadroon (as Roworth explains), and later sabre styles.

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  8. www.academia.edu › 120690752 › SA_05_Sword_Exercise(PDF) SA-05 Sword Exercise and Design for the Cavalry Two ...

    This volume deals with the sword exercise for the British cavalry, using a rare manual for the use of Volunteer troops (1795) and a reproduction of the most influential sword exercise manual by Le Marchant (1796) used throughout the Napoleonic Wars,

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