Civil War Cavalry Fencing 101

Join us for our deeper dive into what competent swordsman would have been taught, had they received any decent training. As we discussed in our previous saber video, most civil war cavalrymen were not taught the basics of saber fighting, let alone enough to advance their skills as a proficient mounted fencer.

In this episode, we borrow the 19th century French manual for some reference since no American saber manual provides enough detail and field application to be useful or effective in combat.

See the link below for this great resource:
https://sirwilliamhope.org/Library/DDLR/crawley/Sabre_Fencing_on_horseback_Andre_Alessandri_1899_PTC2015.pdf

Thanks to the phoenix society of historical swordsmanship for helping us get pointed in the right direction when researching this topic. See below to their youtube Channel:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGNxP2qPwB2Fc596OIBAFLg

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