[…] or stab and thrust, which Lewis Carroll turned into the snicker-snak of the vorpal sword. Flibustier dressed and armed for a campaign ashore, from a chart of Le Cap Francois on Saint-Domingue, 1686, by P. Cornuau. The hilt shown above may be that of a hanger or cutlass, or other cutting or cut-and-thrust sword such as a broadsword or backsword. This curved sword is shorter than a longsword and longer than a shortsword. The image above is of the hilt of the cutlass of famous Dutch admiral Michel de Ruyter. At the man’s feet lies a corpse cloven in half through the torso. Its scabbard is worn from the belt. A lightly laid on cut with a straight edge, one made with small arm movement, will require a deliberate drawing motion. Pirate Swords and Scimitars. The heavily-curved blade would make cutting, not thrusting, its primary purpose. First published in Amsterdam in 1678 in Dutch, the illustrations have been copied to other editions, typically with little or no alteration. s. m. Sorte d’ espée courte & large, qui ne tranche que d’ un costé. And so it will. Much buccaneer swordplay may have looked like this: closing, grappling, and cutting and thrusting at the distance of “handy grips.” Here, in a conjectural image, a buccaneer has secured his adversary’s sword at the hand and grip (although at the shell was considered preferable in order to prevent the adversary from shifting the weapon to the other hand), has his knee on his enemy’s chest, and is in place make a fatal thrust. Amsterdam: Jan ten Hoorn, 1678. Such hangers were also used at sea, and would have likely been present at the capture of Jamaica from the Spanish in 1655, and afterward. Get it as soon as Thu, Dec 24. The adamant scimitar is the fourth strongest scimitar in the game (behind rune, gilded and dragon). They are also subject to counter-attacks in opposition. Views: 1,368. Note that two of them have iron shells and/or knuckle guards, with brass pommels. The blade is of the falchion type and has a large pommel for balance. Note that the image has been flipped (mirrored) in order to align it with the one above. None of these period images of flibustiers show baldrics, although they were a common way of carrying a smallsword into the 1680s for civilian use, and prior to this by infantry and other military branches. Length: Overall 35” Blade 27 ¾” Handle 6” This weapon was a type of sword most commonly associated with the Saracens in the Holy Land who fought against the Crusaders. Below are several hilts with a variety of knuckle bows. Musings on Authentic & Literary Adventure with Ships & Swords, Home » Fencing » Buccaneer Cutlasses: What We Know, Flibustier with captured Spaniards in chains. (French National Library.). derives from an old word meaning “short spear,” and in the nineteenth century meant a short boarding pike. Captain Clarke being out of doors near the waterside, some men in ambush shot him through the thigh and cut his arms with a cutlass, and then they marched away with all haste to the town, firing into some houses as they went…”. Many cutlass hilts were probably this simple. However, it is impossible to maintain proficiency in arms without practice, thus it is likely that pirates practiced swordplay. From left to right, Admirals Byng, Fairborne, Balchin, Montague, & Allin. The scabbard is covered in shagreen, that is, ray skin. This thread is archived. Brass-hilt cutlasses or hangers with naval provenance, from the Royal Museums, Greenwich, dating from the 1660s to the very early 18th century. Sweeping cuts are easily “slipped”–avoided–and as such leave the attacker vulnerable to a counter stroke in tempo. The very few texts below are merely representative of saber technique of the later period: it is by no means a complete list. One type of sword I like is the 17th century walloon hilt saber, which I plan to get one of for fencing practice. Detail from the title page of the 1744 French edition of Histoire des Avanturiers Flibustiers by Alexandre Exquemelin. A pair of flibustiers or buccaneers at Petit Goave, 1688, from a chart by P. Cornuau. (Harvey J. Withers: The Sword in Britain.). Pommels include a bird of prey, lions, and one or two indeterminate forms similar to that shown in the illustration above of the flibustier armed and equipped to march against a town or city. The Scimitar,from the persian word shamshir - lion's tail, is the Arabian/Moorish version of the Cutlass sword. The Dutch and German shells are large and often scalloped, the pommels often heavy for balance, the blades mildly to strongly curved, often with clip points. So, what would these cutlasses depicted by Cornuau actually have looked like? One need only to test this with a common kitchen cleaver to see the efficacy of such blows, although they are generally inferior to those made with a natural drawing action. il luy a fendu la teste de son coutelas, avec son coutelas.” That is, a kind of sword with a short wide blade, which cuts only one side. Note that wide sweeping cuts are more likely to injure one’s companions in a boarding action, and to get caught up in rigging and fittings. Moreover, those who argue for the flat rather than the edge, in spite of overwhelming evidence to the contrary, forget one thing: each time the adversary parries your blade, it will be nicked. Below is a detail from an illustration of the famous Jean Bart–a Flemish corsaire in French service–showing him with a cutlass. Its pommel may also be of some sort of beast or bird, although we cannot be certain, and there is no knuckle bow. ANSWER 0 Mawgan ANSWERS: 4. iwnit. In other words, try this with a curved cutlass, and while you may be able to make a thrust (which may or may not penetrate ribs) as an arrest or stop hit against a riposte, you will almost certainly also be on the receiving end of a powerful cut. German shell-hilt cutlass listed on iCollector.com and dated circa 1680. Again, though, differently sized shells, especially if the difference is significant, will unbalance the weapon, making a thumb ring useful for gripping well and preventing the edge from turning and thereby not cutting. In general, when boarding cutlasses are mentioned in 17th century French maritime documents, the term is often “sabre,” which at the time generally referred to any single-handed European (Eastern or Western) cutting sword, although coutelas is also used, notably in the French editions of Exquemelin as well as in some French naval stores documents dating to the 1670s. However, the most direct evidence we have of the sort of cutlasses used by these adventurers comes from several drawings of flibustiers in the 1680s by Paul Cornuau, a cartographer sent to survey French Caribbean ports, in particular those of Saint-Domingue (French Hispaniola, modern Haiti). The purpose of this Middle-Eastern blade was to allow cavalry to rampage through the enemy infantry lines. On Saturday, 19th January, about 3 o’clock, Juan de Larco with two hundred and fifty Spaniards came down the harbour and landed at Captain Clarke’s, half a mile to east of Charlestown. Most etymologists consider cutlass to be derived from coutelas. Of the late seventeenth century cutlass identified as French, Michel Petard in his excellent Le Sabre d’Abordage describes only one form, shown below. Detail from a print of one of the “Four Indian Kings’ who visited London in 1710.” The hilt form is clearly that of Eastern European or Ottoman short sabers or scimitars. Placing the thumb on the back of the handle, assuming there is even room (typically there is not), given the weight a cutlass and its impact against its target, may result in a sprained thumb, possibly a broken one, and at the very least the thumb being knocked from the grip, thus losing control of the weapon. It requires an Attack level of 30 to wield. 3:n.p. Cutlass balance determines how well the cutlass may be wielded in terms of traditional fencing actions, and which forms of cuts work best. Why not a few longer swords as well? There are no shells. The blade form would make for powerful cleaving cuts but would have to be gripped tightly, given the one-sided balance of the hilt and the lack of thumb ring which might compensate for it. From Paul M. Ambrose Antiques. The blade is pierced at the forte with slots and holes. The pommel is perhaps a dolphin? The Scimitar is a sword with a short curved single-edged blade, broadest at the point end. We see a variety of shells and pommels above, although most grips appear to brass, or possibly wire, twisted in a sharply ascending manner. Both The Sea Rover’s Practice and The Buccaneer’s Realm also include information on the cutlass and other swords; the latter has an entire chapter devoted to associated late 17th century swords and swordplay. The lucky cutlass can be bought from Smith on Mos Le'Harmless for 2560 coins after one completes the quest Cabin Fever. ), Eighteenth century singlesticks. It is treated as a scimitar for any effects that apply to scimitars. Its shell is medium to large, the quillons small and curved, the pommel round and heavy, the blade moderately curved and with a clip point useful for thrusting. Dutch cutlass with thumb ring and almost certainly a small shell on the outside. Note that prize-fighters fought primarily with swords, as well as with quarterstaff, and occasionally with fists. Saber, sabre, and the Dutch sabel derive from the German sabel, with authorities noting the term’s Slavic origin. It appears to lack a knuckle bow. Switching to a discussion of how the cutlass is held, the cutlass grip, like that of period broadswords and backswords, is a “globular” one–the thumb is not placed on the back of the grip or handle. Notably, Admiral Penn commanded the English fleet at the capture of Jamaica in 1655. From the form of the blades, the upper would be more “tip heavy” and capable of short cleaving cuts, while the lower would be a better “fencing” weapon. The objection is that a parry will damage the cutting edge. It is very difficult to push the edge of a sword deeply into tissue, and most wounds caused this way are superficial. Although the Spanish connection to the Low Countries, and thus a connection to the Dutch term, appears suggestive, the English use of hanger predates Spanish rule. A fairly common form of cutlass, with a bow, rather than a shell, protecting the outside of the hand. Rijksmuseum. Ridley with the violent Force of the Blow at once snap’d his Cutlass and disarm’d the Negroe, whose Scimitar falling into the Water, Ridley laid hold’of, and us’d instead of his Cutlass.”. Taylor’s pirate crew reportedly held practices, as Commodore Walker would later do, with foils and single-sticks. (And no, for the occasional “expert” who wants to argue, the term hanger in naval inventories at this time refers to short cutting swords, not sword hangers.) Cologne: Lorenzo Struickman, 1681. Coutelas bien tranchant. Again, there is no knuckle bow. Although it certainly may be true, it is tied to a criticism of Dutch East Indiamen captains and crews, with de Bucquoy suggesting that the pirates were more disciplined and trained in a manner that the East Indiaman crews were not. These brass-hilted swords were issued not only to army infantry grenadiers, but also to the troupes de la Marine and to auxiliary forces guarding French ports. Herman Padtbrugge, draftsman and engraver, may have been the illustrator according to the British Museum. Like all adamant weapons, it requires 30 Attack to wield. Cutting swords–hangers and cutlasses–with simple shell hilts from Harold Peterson’s Arms and Armor in Colonial America 1526-1783, page 81. There are occasional mentions of backswords and broadswords aboard ship, although in the minority. Upgrading Bilgewater Cutlass into Hextech Gunblade changes the active, which has different range ( 550 to 700), as well as higher base damage and an AP scaling. L’Ollonois above holds a typical Dutch or German scalloped shell-hilt cutlass of the late 17th century. The naval sword of Dutch Admiral Cornelis Maartenszoon Tromp, mid- to late 17th century. Typical late seventeenth century “crowned” foil. Certainly they were aboard Spanish men-of-war, which had a large proportion of soldiers aboard: perhaps the earliest “Bilbao hilt” cutting sword, popular in the 18th century, dates to the 1660s and was found aboard a Spanish wreck. (Archives Nationale d’Outre-Mer.). As already noted, inner shells were usually smaller, given that the inner part of the hand (the fingers, basically) is smaller than the outer, typically 1/3 to 2/5’s of the entire fist. 1702. [2] Thomas Coryate, ‘Laugh and be Fat’ in Coryat’s Crudities (reprint London, 1776), vol. The addition of an inner shell, typically smaller, goes far to maintain adequate protection to the hand. Only the outer edge is sharp, and the back is flat, giving the blade a triangular cross-section. Nantes: Editions du Canonnier, 2006, page 41. Attempts at restraining from fighting with short cutting swords–hangers, cutlasses, or falchions–from the series “Scenes of War” by Hans Ulrich Franck, 1656. They originated in the Middle East. The Corsair Scimitar Pro has 12 side buttons, which seems to be the standard for MMO mice nowadays. “Francisco Lolonois”–Jean David Nau aka L’Ollonois or L’Ollonais–depicted in the first Spanish edition of Exquemelin work: Piratas de la America, translated by Alonso de Buena-Maison. There are few descriptions of the cutlass in action, but of those that exist, they are quite illustrative. A 1708 Maryland arms list notes “100 cutlaces with broad deep blades” (cited above), suggesting that the term had become associated more broadly with short cutting swords in general. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. The low seconde and prime parries are just as important. Dutch naval sabels or cutlasses: a half-basket or Sinclair type, and a pair with mere crossbars, falchion-like, although perhaps the knuckle guard was inadvertently omitted by the illustrator or a small shell on the outside is hidden from view. EYEWITNESS IMAGES OF BUCCANEER & FLIBUSTIER CUTLASSES, What we do not know is how common these swords were among buccaneers and flibustiers. See below. ( Log Out /  (My publisher won’t appreciate my repeating the information here; by agreement I am not supposed to.) From a late eighteenth century forged trade card of prizefighter James Figg. Getting hit on the head with a heavy cutlass would be akin to getting hit with a steel rod. Practice with a knowledgeable partner is also required, as is cutting practice in order to get a good feel for the weapon. There are unfortunately no cutlass texts dating to the age of the buccaneer, and few fencing texts discuss even related weapons until the 18th century. Almost certainly there were brass-hilted versions of this sword; the French grenadier sword of roughly the same date is identical, except in brass. It’s hilt is made of sawasa, an alloy of “fire-gilt copper, gold and arsenic.” The hilt was made in Indonesia, the blade probably in Europe. (It may also be pushed away, in the 18th century this was known as a “sawing” cut.) Possibly one of the more practical texts, and even then incomplete, is that of Lieutenant Pringle Green in manuscript in the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich. Dallas: Rock Bottom Publications, 2006, page 66. From George G. Neuman’s Swords & Blades of the American Revolution. Brass-hilted hangers with antler grips from the second half of the seventeenth century. Brass, and brass & iron, cutlass and hanger hilts, dating the late 17th and early 18th centuries, from a variety of online antique arms dealers, including Harvey JS Withers and Thomas Delmar. The scimitar shown above is a 16th century Middle Eastern weapon; the cutlass is a 17th century European weapon. 3, August 2012). The 4th from the left looks somewhat like a transitional rapier or smallsword hilt, but it appears it may lack the usual arms of the hilt, plus the sword hangs low from the belt and at a steep angle, making it possible that it is a hanger or cutlass. My heart says the longswordsman, but my head says it has to go to the rapier-wielder. Detail from a print of Admiral Sir Fretsivell Hollis, circa 1680 to 1685. But typically the fort is used for parrying, which is seldom sharp, and even if it is, is seldom used for cutting. In other words, it is unknown how accurate the physical representations the buccaneers are, nor how accurate their arms and accoutrements. Dish-shell, leather covered wood grip, heavy pommel for balance, and a thumb ring on the inside (probably to balance the bar on the outside and perhaps to give extra cutting strength as well). ( Log Out /  Both swords have a single shell on the outside. In English the word scimitar (/ ˈ s ɪ m ɪ t ər / or / ˈ s ɪ m ɪ t ɑːr /) refers to a backsword or sabre with a curved blade. The cutlasses depicted in Exquemelin may simply reflect the illustrator’s Dutch nationality and familiarity with Dutch arms. There has been a lot of requests lately for sabre vs rapier videos. New comments … It appears to be a fairly accurate representation of a Dutch or English cutlass or hanger as discussed previously, although, if we look at the pistol in the belt, we may draw some reservations about its accuracy. Hanger, silver- or brass-hilted, from the trade card of Nicholas Croucher, sword cutler, dated pre-1703, probably 1690s. From the French chart Carte particulière de la rivière de la Plata by Paul Cornuau, probably 1684 based on a nearly identical chart he drew of the River Plate dated 1684. The cutlass has what appears to be a bird pommel, a small outside un-scalloped shell (or possibly a disk shell), an upper quillon, and a clip point. 128 comments. The grossly exaggerated Thomas Malthus edition of Alexandre Exquemelin’s The History of the Bucaniers (1684) notes the following of the cutlass in buccaneer hands: “Never did the Spaniards feel better carvers of Mans-flesh; they would take off a Mans Arm at the shoulders, as ye cut off the Wing of a Capon; split a Spanish Mazard [head or skull] as exactly as a Butcher cleaves a Calf’s Head, and dissect the Thorax with more dexterity than a Hangman when he goes to take out the Heart of a Traitor.”. (Rijksmuseum. Its hilt has two shells, both small and scalloped. However, given how low it hangs and the angle at which it hangs, it is probably a cutlass or hanger. From Le Sabre d’Abordage by Michel Petard. Late seventeenth century foils with small shells similar to those of smallswords.  The Scimitar was used for slicing attacks and often used from horseback..  Scimitars had a distinct curved blade ending with a sharp point. Regarding the various spellings of cutlass in the mid-seventeenth to early eighteenth centuries: cutlass, cutlace, cutlash, curtlass, curtelass, courtlass, courtelass, and curtle-axe are all common. Notably, these are eyewitness illustrations! British Museum. Scimitar I’m speculating, of course, but the cutlass may have found preference at sea due to its greater ability at close quarters. The grip is wood covered with cane, with a few wrappings of wire. Captain Hook’s Hook: Its Most Likely Inspiration–And His Nemesis Crocodile’s Too! Grenadier sabre from the Brest magazine (sabre de garde-magasin de l’arsenal de Brest) circa 1680, upon which the cutlass above it is based. Money is always a concern in film-making, and it is much cheaper to use existing swords than to make historically accurate ones in large quantities, or, too often, even in small quantities. The only 17th century exception I can think of offhand is Francesco Antonio Marcelli’s treatise on the rapier (Regole Della Scherma, 1686), in which he devotes a few pages to saber versus rapier, noting quite correctly that the saber, and therefore also falchion, cutlass, &c., is a killing weapon even at very close range. The pistol, carried as many were, tucked behind the sash or belt on the right side to protect the lock and make for an easy left-handed (non-sword hand) draw, has errors: both the belt-hook and lock are shown on the left side of the weapon, for example, and the lock is inaccurately drawn. Doubtless there at some among them, given how common these cutlasses were. 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