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  1. Newsgroups: rec.martial-arts
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!nih-csl.dcrt.nih.gov!helix.nih.gov!drury
  3. From: drury@helix.nih.gov (Richard Drury)
  4. Subject: Re: Just Curious...
  5. Message-ID: <1992Dec23.034929.21002@alw.nih.gov>
  6. Sender: postman@alw.nih.gov (AMDS Postmaster)
  7. Organization: National Institutes of Health, Bethesda
  8. Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 03:49:29 GMT
  9. Lines: 10
  10.  
  11. hahn@plugh.network.com (Peter Hahn) writes:
  12. >Most every account I've seen agrees that modern day boxing was developed
  13. >by English fencing masters around the end of the eighteenth century, and
  14. >was, initially, sort of an empty-hand version of their sword-and-buckler
  15. >style.
  16.  
  17. What's the "buckler" in sword-and-buckler?
  18. --
  19. Richard A. Drury
  20. drury@helix.nih.gov
  21.