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Broad-Sword and Single-Stick (Illustrated Edition)

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Echo Library, 2010 - 84 pages
First published in 1890 with Chapters on Quarter-Staff, Bayonet, Cudgel, Shillalah, Walking-Stick, Umbrella, and Other Weapons of Self-Defence.
  

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Contents

CHAPTER PAGE I INTRODUCTORY
8
THE QUARTERSTAFF
10
THE BROADSWORD
19
SINGLESTICK
40
THE BAYONET
61
THE CUDGEL SHILLALAH WALKINGSTICK
70
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TitleBroad-Sword and Single-Stick (Illustrated Edition)
AuthorsR G Allanson-Winn, C Phillipps-Wolley
Editionillustrated
PublisherEcho Library, 2010
ISBN1406867535, 9781406867534
Length84 pages
  
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