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The Swiss sabre (German, Schweizersäbel) is a type of two-handed sabre design that was popular in Early Modern Switzerland.. Unlike the terms Swiss degen (Schweizerdegen) and Swiss dagger (Schweizerdolch) which are attested in the 16th century, Schweizersäbel is a modern term, coined by antiquarian and curator of the Swiss National Museum Eduard Achilles Gessler (1880–1947) in his 1914 ...
A peculiarity of the Swiss armies of this period was the principle of self-equipment: each man was expected to purchase his own personal weapon, either pike, halberd or handgun, as well as his personal sidearm, and in the 18th century his own musket, bayonet, sabre, and uniform.
The English sabre is recorded from the 1670s, as a direct loan from French, where sabre is an alteration of sable, which was in turn loaned from German Säbel, Sabel in the 1630s. The German word is on record from the 15th century, loaned from Polish szabla, which was itself adopted from Hungarian szabla (14th century, later szablya). [1]
Swiss sabre; Szabla; Szabla wz. 34 This page was last edited on 3 January 2014, at 03:58 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
Swiss degen; Swiss sabre This page was last edited on 24 March 2023, at 07:01 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 ...
All of the Islamic world during the 16th to 18th century, including the Ottoman Empire and Persia were influenced by the "scimitar" type of single-edged curved sword.Via the Mameluke sword this also gave rise to the European cavalry sabre.
Swiss degen; Swiss sabre; Sword of François I; Z. Zweihänder This page was last edited on 28 November 2024, at 22:26 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative ...
The present chronology is a compilation that includes diverse and relatively uneven documents about different families of bladed weapons: swords, dress-swords, sabers, rapiers, foils, machetes, daggers, knives, arrowheads, etc..., with the sword references being the most numerous but not the unique included among the other listed references of the rest of bladed weapons.