Sword play
by Scott Dudley Breckinridge
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About this eBook
- Author
- Breckinridge, Scott D., 1917-2000
- Title
- Sword play, based upon the French school of the foil
- Original Publication
- New York: A. S. Barnes & Co., 1941.
- Credits
- Tim Lindell, Steve Mattern and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- U: Military science
- Subject
- Fencing
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 79503
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/79503
- Release Date
- September 2, 2026
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.SWORD PLAY
- 2.Untitled
- 3.PREFACE
- 4.CONTENTS
- 5.FORWARD — “SHALL WE FENCE?”
- 6.Chapter I FUNDAMENTALS — THE POSITION OF GUARD, WITHOUT THE SWORD — THE ADVANCE AND RETREAT — THE THRUST — THE LUNGE — THE SWORD — THE GRASP (GRIP, OR HOLD) OF THE SWORD — POSITIONS OF SWORD-HAND IN GUARDS
- 7.Chapter II DEFENCE AND ATTACK
- 8.Chapter III IRREGULAR PRACTISES
- 9.Chapter IV THE BOUT
- 10.Chapter V EXERCISES
- 11.Chapter VI CLASS INSTRUCTION — LESSON I — LESSON II — LESSON III — LESSON IV — LESSON V — LESSON VI — LESSON VII — LESSON VIII — LESSON IX — LESSON X — LESSON XI — LESSON XII — LESSON XIII — LESSON XIV — LESSON XV
- 12.Chapter VII THE DUELLING SWORD
- 13.Chapter VIII THE SABER
- 14.INDEX — Transcriber’s Notes
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