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Post by brokennock on Feb 19, 2022 19:35:01 GMT -7
Maybe this belongs in the edged "weapons/tools" section but it is based on a passage in a book. The book being, "The Revolution Remembered - eyewitness accounts of the war for independence." I always think of broadswords in the context of highlanders and other earlier warriors in the northern Europe and northern British Isles. Knowing full well that I am probably way off. But, not as a common weapon amongst American Patriots during the AWI. Then, I come across this passage in one of the pension application depositions included in this book, Thoughts anyone?
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Post by paranger on Feb 20, 2022 17:25:09 GMT -7
A broadsword is a single handed, straight-bladed, double-edged basket-hilted sword. By contrast, a backsword is a single handed, straight-bladed, single-edged, normally basket-hilted sword.
Though the broadsword has strong Scottish associations, whereas the backsword has more of an English association, I think it would be a mistake to view these as hard distinctions.
Furthermore, there were numerous highland emigrees in the American South at the time of the AWI, (though most were notably Loyalist). The incident you cite, if I am not mistaken, refers to vengeance for the so-called Waxhaws Massacre in South Carolina. The presence of broadswords in the Carolinas doesn't surprise me a bit.
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