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impossiblefork t1_j2banmj wrote

Reply to comment by Poopy_McTurdFace in Fencing or swordsmanship during the during the American revolution by Unable-Anybody-2285

>Military fencing in the age of powder mostly consisted of mounted saber,

No. Swedes fought with pikes and sword during charges that followed a close-distance volley and the attack with swords was a primary tactic.

There are surely other groups that used similar tactics.

The start of the gunpowder era had pike squares and Spanish had sword fencers in these pike squares, similar to the use of landsknechts in German equivalents.

What I mention is of course a slightly different era, but you make statement without qualifying it so that it isn't false.

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Poopy_McTurdFace t1_j2bty1c wrote

You're correct. The statements I've been making have been applicable for America and Brittan for the 18th and 19th centuries.

The late 16th and 17th centuries saw quite a bit of infantry fencing training. Nations that were historically lighter on cavalry also had infantry fencing being a larger part of military doctrine for a while longer.

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