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and double feints. The (Ingle feint is made by difengaging 
from that fide on which you are oppofed by your a'dver- 
fary’s guard, and making a flight motion at the other ; 
you then return to the flrfT, and deliver the cut. For 
inftance, if engaged on the outTide guard, you will dif- 
engage over the point, and dropping your point on the 
infide of your advetfary’s blade about fix inches, return 
to the outfide, and deliver cut 2, at his arm, or 6, at his 
ribs. If you find him prepared to parry thofe cuts, you 
will only make an offer as before, which conftitutes a 
double feint, and/then deliver your cut at the head or in,, 
fide of his pofition. But as cutting at the infide againfl: 
an antagonift who is perfect in his guards, efpecially from 
feints, is attended with the danger of a counter-firoke, it 
is much fafer, when you intend a double feint, to com¬ 
mence it by a difengage from the infide. The purpofe 
of feints being only to induce your adverfary to guard a 
part at which you do not defign to (trike, the feints, whe¬ 
ther fingle or double, may be directed at any other parts 
as well as thofe above-mentioned. Great caution is how¬ 
ever requifite, that in making thefe feints you do not un¬ 
cover yourfelf fo much as to receive an intervening thrnft 
or cut from your adverfary. The feint fliould alfo be 
direbted at a part from whence you can quickly recover 
your fword to effebt the cut you really intend. 
Disarming. — The merit of this artifice lies more in 
fkill and ingenuity, than in the honour or heroifm either 
ot a gentleman or a fotdier, when fighting for their lives. 
Various methods of difarming are attempted ; but the 
Jafelt and moft likely to fucceed, after parrying an infide 
cut, is to change quickly to the outfide, lungeing forward 
to bear your adverfa'ry’S blade out of the line, and then 
ftep with your left foot up to his right heel, feize his (hell 
with your left hand, quit your bearing on his blade, and 
prefent your point to his breaft.—A difarm on the hang¬ 
ing guard may be effected by making cut 3, at the feeble 
ot your antagonifi’s blade, traverfing at the fame time to 
the left, and gliding the edge of your fword firongly againfl: 
the back of your opponent’s. It will however require 
fiome caution, left lie fliould turn his wrift at the inltant 
yon attempt it, and make a cut at the infide. 
Thofe difarms which are efiedted by wrenching from an 
infide guard to a feconde hanging guard, cr from an out¬ 
fide guard to a half circle, will not often fuccced, except 
with very light fwords. With fuch, they mu ft be com¬ 
menced by turning the knuckles rather more up than 
ufual on thofe guards, and fwiftiy reverfing them as you 
wrench the adverfary’S blade down, direbting your point 
rather in a diagonal line acrofs his body, than permitting 
it to form a circle. Thefe latter cifarms are only appli¬ 
cable when the adverfary prefentshis blade and arm nearly 
horizontal ; and in that cafe, if they do not fucceed in 
wrenching the fword out of his hand, they may prove 
nfeful in obtaining an opening for a cut or thru ft. The 
■method of avoiding them is by difengaging under your 
adverfarv’s hilt at the inftant he endeavours to crofs your 
biade. If this difengage be well timed, and ingenioufly 
condubted, lie may probably threw his own fword from 
his hand, by not meeting the refiftance he expebteh. 
Application of the Point. —The weight of the 
broad fword admits not of the fame number of thrufts 
that may be inade with the fmall fword. All that can 
be introduced with advantage among the cuts of the for¬ 
mer, are four, viz. Carte, Tierce, Lout Carte, and Scconde, 
which is a low tierce : thefe fliould be thru ft with the 
hilt high enough toward any blow your adverfary may 
be likely to make, and to retard a difengagement over 
your wrift at the inflant of hinging. 
Carte with the broad fword is thruft at the infide of the 
tipper part of the body, with the nails upward, and the 
edge of the fword turned rather upward to the left, and 
well oppofed towards your antngonift’s weapon,.by kcep- 
ing your pommel oppofite your left temple-at the time of 
lunging. If when thrufting at the infide of your anta¬ 
gonift you are apprehenlive of his cutting downwards, 
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you mutt turn your wrift-as in the half-circle guard, that 
your ward-iron may be upwards. In thrufting at the out¬ 
fide, turn the wrift as in the hanging guard.— Low Carte 
is thrift with the broad fword at the infide of the lower 
half of your antagonift’s body, with the fame precaution 
or oppofing your edge towards your adverfary’S blade.— 
Tierce is thrufl at the upper part of your antagonift’s body, 
over his arm, with your nails downward, the edge of your 
fword turned to the right, and oppofed towards his blade. 
—Seconde diifers from tierce in being thrufl belovv the 
fword arm.—In thrufting carle and low carte be careful to 
form a good oppofition toward your antagonift’s weapon, 
by carrying your wrift to the left. In thrufting, tierce and 
feconde, the oppofition to his blade muft be formed by 
bearing your wrift to the right. Although in tiling the 
fmall fword, there are many other thrufts, which arc 
made with the back of the blade oppofed to the weapon 
of the antagonift, yet they cannot be executed with a 
broad fword, without great hazard of receiving a cut on 
the arm at the time of lungeing ; fince if your antagonift 
fprings back, his body will be out of the reach of your 
thrufl, and your arm becomes expofed to his edge. This 
is not the cafe with the fmall fword, which being much 
lighter, the thrufl and recovery to guard are executed 
with more celerity; and when oppofing another fmall 
fword, without danger from the edge of your antagonift. 
• In thrufting with the fabre, the fafeft methods are thofe 
already recommended, fince the convex edge of the fabre, 
when oppofed to 5 n antagonift’s blade, affords protection 
from a counter cut or thrufl:. Yet (till the advantage that 
may be fometimes attained by the curve of the fabre en r 
abling you to deceive your adverfary’S guard, merits con- 
fideration. For inftance, engage on an outfide guard, your 
edge oppofed to your adverfary : thrufl: at him, turning 
your nails upwards as you lunge. This forms the thrufl 
called carte over the arm, and brings the hollow back ot 
your fabre againfl your adverfary’S weapon, and thereby 
enables you to direct the point fix or eight inches more 
toward his left than you otherwife could, and to effedt 
either a thrufl, or a fawingcut, at his face or neck. But 
obferve, that as you deliver this thrufl, your oppofition 
to his blade muft be formed by carrying your wrift to the 
right of the line of defence. If he parry this thrufl: of 
carte over the arm, by an outfide guard ; the inftant your 
point paffes the outfide of his pofition, he may cut 2, at 
the outfide of your fword arm; this you muft parry by 
an outfide guard, or a feconde hanging guard : or it he 
drop his point over your blade, and cut at your cheek, 
you fliould parry by the prime hanging guard. Some fen¬ 
cers, after parrying carte over the arm by an outfide 
guard, whirl the blade round with a half-circle parade, 
and return low carte: but this is only to be effected 
againfl a perfon who is flow in recovering from his lunge. 
Advantages fimilar to thrufting carte over the arm, may 
be obtained with a fabre, by reverfing the wrift on the 
other thrufts: but thefe advantages will be better under- 
flood by taking the fabre in your hand, and obferving the 
effect produced on the direction of the point by turning 
your nails up and down, than by the moft accurate theo¬ 
retical defeription. 
Thrusts above the Wrist. —Thefe may be parried 
by an infide or outfide guard, ftriking your fort with vi¬ 
gour on your adverfary’S feebie, and retaining your point 
in the line of defence, prefented to his face. In doing 
this it will be advifable to fink your hilt rather lower 
than when oppofing a cut, and to keep the arm fomewhat 
more flexible. 
Thrusts bei.ow the 'Wrist. —The ufual method 
of parrying thrufts made belovv the wrift, with a broad 
fword, is to beat the opponent’s blade to the outfide, by 
dropping the po-int fo a feconde, or outfide hanging guard, 
whether thofe thrufts be made by difengaging from either 
an outfide or an infide guard. In performing this parade, 
obferve to retain a fufficient command of your fword to be 
able to change quickly to an infide 0 x prime hanging guard. 
