Encyclopedia of historical weapons - Genuillieres
Plate pieces to protect the knee.
From Encyclopedia
- Blade
- The length of steel that forms a sword.
- Flail
- Jointed weapon consisting of a spiked, flanged or knobbed steel bludgeon chain-attached to a short wood or steel haft.
- Main-gauche
- Left-handed, parrying dagger used along with a rapier.
- Gladius
- The Legions patterned their short swords after those of the Spanish Celts. The historian, Polybius, says they were introduced into the army during…
