Swords and sabres that soldiers carried in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, including the cavalry sabre, the Caucasian shashka, the Japanese military sword, the American Model 1913 Patton saber, the Chinese hook sword and the modern sporting epee. A weapon belongs here when its cited article describes it as a sword, sabre or fencing blade. It excludes daggers and knives. These blades equipped cavalry officers and parade units and later survive as ceremonial and sporting weapons, and they show how the sword outlived the age of the musket by carrying on in new roles.
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Wikipedia: Sabre
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A sabre or (American English) saber ( SAY-bər) is a type of backsword with a curved blade associated with the light cavalry of the early modern and Napoleonic periods.
Wikipedia: Shashka
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The shashka or shasqua (Abkhaz: аҳәа, асахәа; Adyghe: сэшхуэ, [saʃxʷa], long-knife; Chechen: гlорда, гlурда/терс-маймал; Dargin: шушкIа; Georgian: ჭოლაური, ch'olauri; Ingush: гурде/г1ама; Lezgin: шуьш; Ossetian: ахсан/ахсæн, шашкæ; Russian: шашка) is a kind of Caucasian sabre: a single-edged, single-handed, and guardless sabre.
Wikipedia: Gunto
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The guntō (軍刀; military sword) is a ceremonial sword that was produced for the Imperial Japanese army and navy after the introduction of conscription in 1872.
Wikipedia: Model 1913 Cavalry Saber
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The Model 1913 Cavalry Sword, commonly referred to as the Patton Saber, was a cavalry sword designed for the U.S. Army by Second Lieutenant (later General) George S. Patton Jr. in 1913. Issued during World War I, the saber was the last sword to be used by the U.S. Cavalry.
Wikipedia: Epee
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The épée (, French: [epe]; lit. 'sword'), also rendered as epee in English, is the largest and heaviest of the three weapons used in the sport of fencing.
Wikipedia: Hook sword
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The hook sword, twin hooks, fu tao, hu tou gou (tiger head hook) or shuang gou (Chinese: 鈎 or 鉤; pinyin: Gōu) is a Chinese weapon traditionally associated with northern styles of Chinese martial arts and Wushu weapons routines; however, it is now often used in southern styles as well.
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