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Gareth Glover & Paul Morrison, eds, A New System of Cavalry Swordsmanship by Lt-Col Charles Edward Radclyffe 1st (Royal) Dragoons

Gareth Glover & Paul Morrison, eds, A New System of Cavalry Swordsmanship by Lt-Col Charles... ARMS & ARMOUR, Vol. 0 No. 0, Month 2023, 1–5 Book Review Gareth Glover & Paul Morrison, eds, A New System of Cavalry Swordsmanship by Lt-Col Charles Edward Radclyffe 1st (Royal) Dragoons, Ken Trotman Publishing, Huntingdon & Great Britain, 2019, 110 pp, black and white and colour illustrations, £33.00 (hardcover) For many years Gareth Glover has been at the forefront of bringing previously unknown (or at least unpublished) Napoleonic military sources to the public. Some of which, like Adventurous Pursuits of a Peninsular War and Waterloo Veteran: The Story of Private James Smithies, 1st Royal Dragoons, provide snippets of important contextual information regarding the reality of the employment of edged weapons in the period by those who used, and faced them, in combat. Yet the work under review is the first time that Glover has brought forward (together with the owner of the original work and fellow editor, Paul Morrison) a source that deals purely with the subject and, therefore, should be essential reading for anyone with a ser- ious interest in the swordsmanship, and swords, of Wellington’s cavalry. No currently known published versions (although his Radclyffe’s, sadly unreferenced in the work under review, does claim the work was http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Arms & Armour Taylor & Francis

Gareth Glover & Paul Morrison, eds, A New System of Cavalry Swordsmanship by Lt-Col Charles Edward Radclyffe 1st (Royal) Dragoons

Yallop, Henry
Arms & Armour , Volume 20 (1): 5 – Jan 2, 2023
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Gareth Glover & Paul Morrison, eds, A New System of Cavalry Swordsmanship by Lt-Col Charles Edward Radclyffe 1st (Royal) Dragoons

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ARMS & ARMOUR, Vol. 0 No. 0, Month 2023, 1–5 Book Review Gareth Glover & Paul Morrison, eds, A New System of Cavalry Swordsmanship by Lt-Col Charles Edward Radclyffe 1st (Royal) Dragoons, Ken Trotman Publishing, Huntingdon & Great Britain, 2019, 110 pp, black and white and colour illustrations, £33.00 (hardcover) For many years Gareth Glover has been at the forefront of bringing previously unknown (or at least unpublished) Napoleonic military sources to the public....
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ARMS & ARMOUR, Vol. 0 No. 0, Month 2023, 1–5 Book Review Gareth Glover & Paul Morrison, eds, A New System of Cavalry Swordsmanship by Lt-Col Charles Edward Radclyffe 1st (Royal) Dragoons, Ken Trotman Publishing, Huntingdon & Great Britain, 2019, 110 pp, black and white and colour illustrations, £33.00 (hardcover) For many years Gareth Glover has been at the forefront of bringing previously unknown (or at least unpublished) Napoleonic military sources to the public. Some of which, like Adventurous Pursuits of a Peninsular War and Waterloo Veteran: The Story of Private James Smithies, 1st Royal Dragoons, provide snippets of important contextual information regarding the reality of the employment of edged weapons in the period by those who used, and faced them, in combat. Yet the work under review is the first time that Glover has brought forward (together with the owner of the original work and fellow editor, Paul Morrison) a source that deals purely with the subject and, therefore, should be essential reading for anyone with a ser- ious interest in the swordsmanship, and swords, of Wellington’s cavalry. No currently known published versions (although his Radclyffe’s, sadly unreferenced in the work under review, does claim the work was

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