weapons info

The last of the duelling sidearms, the smallsword was developed towards the end of the seventeenth century, and remained popular for settling affairs of honour until replaced by the pistol.

Two styles of smallsword use are taught at the school: the 'common method', for which Domenico Angelo's School of Fencing (1787), is the core treatise; and Sir William Hope's radical and idiosyncratic New Method (1707).

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