Clarifying Alfred Hutton: A response to “Friends don’t let friends fence “Cold Steel.”

October 3, 2022 Leave a comment

Since the reference list was too long for the YouTube description I needed to put it here. I really appreciate you checking my work though and hope you enjoy the video.

Reference list:

  1.   Russ Mitchell, ‘Friends don’t let friends fence “Cold Steel.”, https://youtu.be/KTi2y4oSFVw?t=48
  2.   Russ Mitchell, ‘Friends don’t let friends fence “Cold Steel.”, https://youtu.be/KTi2y4oSFVw?t=543 9:03
  3.   Russ Mitchell, ‘Friends don’t let friends fence “Cold Steel.”, https://youtu.be/KTi2y4oSFVw?t=454 7:34
  4.   Russ Mitchell, ‘Friends don’t let friends fence “Cold Steel.”, https://youtu.be/KTi2y4oSFVw?t=43
  5.   Sieveking, A. F., and Julian Lock. "Hutton, Alfred (1839–1910), swordsman." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. 23 Sep. 2004; Accessed 3 Oct. 2022. https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-34078.
  6.   Alfred Hutton 1889 Cold Steel: A practical treatise on the Sabre https://www.hroarr.com/manuals/sabre-cutlass-broadsword-rapier/Hutton_ColdSteel.pdf page 2
  7.   Martial Arts Reconstruction Treatise database of Alfred Huttons’ works http://www.middleages.hu/english/martialarts/treatise_database.php?values_set=1&sort_order=year&direction=&secondary_sort_order=author&secondary_direction=&limit=1&search_string=hutton&ok=Start+search&pagesize=500&sort=year&sortmethod=ASC&filter_century_19=ON&filter_language_1=ON
  8.   Sieveking, A. F., and Julian Lock. "Hutton, Alfred (1839–1910), swordsman." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. 23 Sep. 2004; Accessed 5 Sep. 2022. https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-34078.
  9.   Sieveking, A. F., and Julian Lock. "Hutton, Alfred (1839–1910), swordsman." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. 23 Sep. 2004; Accessed 3 Oct. 2022. https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-34078.
  10.   Famous Swordsman. Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 41, 18 February 1911, Page 14 https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19110218.2.145
  11.   Henry Somerset Beaufort, Alfred Edward Thomas Watson (1890) The Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes https://archive.org/details/badmintonlibrar05watsgoog page 111
  12.   Russ Mitchell, ‘Friends don’t let friends fence “Cold Steel.”, https://youtu.be/KTi2y4oSFVw
  13.   Saul David, Victoria's Wars: The Rise of Empire , London, Penguin Books, 2007.
  14.   Peter Hodges, "They don't like it up 'em!: Bayonet fetishization in the British Army during the First World War", in Journal of War & Culture Studies, vol. 1, 2008, 123-138.
  15.  Nigel Plum 2004 Notes on A Complete system of Bayonet Exercise, by Richard F Burton, 1853 http://www.fioredeiliberi.org/topics/sources/burton-bayonetnote.pdf
  16.    Famous Swordsman. Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 41, 18 February 1911, Page 14 https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19110218.2.145
  17.   Alfred Hutton 1889 Cold Steel: A practical treatise on the Sabre https://www.hroarr.com/manuals/sabre-cutlass-broadsword-rapier/Hutton_ColdSteel.pdf
  18.    Russ Mitchell, ‘Friends don’t let friends fence “Cold Steel.”, https://youtu.be/KTi2y4oSFVw?t=83 1:23
  19.   Russ Mitchell, ‘Friends don’t let friends fence “Cold Steel.”, https://youtu.be/KTi2y4oSFVw?t=106 1:46
  20.   Alfred Hutton 1889 Cold Steel: A practical treatise on the Sabre https://www.hroarr.com/manuals/sabre-cutlass-broadsword-rapier/Hutton_ColdSteel.pdf page 7
  21.   Alfred Hutton 1889 Cold Steel: A practical treatise on the Sabre https://www.hroarr.com/manuals/sabre-cutlass-broadsword-rapier/Hutton_ColdSteel.pdf pages 36-38
  22.   Alfred Hutton 1889 Cold Steel: A practical treatise on the Sabre https://www.hroarr.com/manuals/sabre-cutlass-broadsword-rapier/Hutton_ColdSteel.pdf plate V
  23.   Alfred Hutton 1889 Cold Steel: A practical treatise on the Sabre https://www.hroarr.com/manuals/sabre-cutlass-broadsword-rapier/Hutton_ColdSteel.pdf plate XI
  24.   Alfred Hutton 1889 Cold Steel: A practical treatise on the Sabre https://www.hroarr.com/manuals/sabre-cutlass-broadsword-rapier/Hutton_ColdSteel.pdf page 36
  25.   Russ Mitchell, ‘Friends don’t let friends fence “Cold Steel.”, https://youtu.be/KTi2y4oSFVw?t=165
  26.   Russ Mitchell, ‘Friends don’t let friends fence “Cold Steel.”, https://youtu.be/KTi2y4oSFVw?t=129
  27.   Alfred Hutton 1889 Cold Steel: A practical treatise on the Sabre https://www.hroarr.com/manuals/sabre-cutlass-broadsword-rapier/Hutton_ColdSteel.pdf page 36
  28.   Russ Mitchell, ‘Friends don’t let friends fence “Cold Steel.”, https://youtu.be/KTi2y4oSFVw?t=194 3:14
  29.   Russ Mitchell, ‘Friends don’t let friends fence “Cold Steel.”, https://youtu.be/KTi2y4oSFVw?t=194 3:16
  30.   Alfred Hutton 1889 Cold Steel: A practical treatise on the Sabre https://www.hroarr.com/manuals/sabre-cutlass-broadsword-rapier/Hutton_ColdSteel.pdf plate IX
  31.   Russ Mitchell, ‘Friends don’t let friends fence “Cold Steel.”, https://youtu.be/KTi2y4oSFVw?t=205 3:25
  32.   Russ Mitchell, ‘Friends don’t let friends fence “Cold Steel.”, https://youtu.be/KTi2y4oSFVw?t=208 3:28
  33.   Henry Charles Angelo ‘the younger’(1845) Infantry Sword Exercise  http://www.fioredeiliberi.org/topics/sources/1845-infantry-sword-exercise.pdf page 13
  34.   Sieveking, A. F., and Julian Lock. "Hutton, Alfred (1839–1910), swordsman." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. 23 Sep. 2004; Accessed 3 Oct. 2022. https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-34078
  35.   Henry Angelo (1799) The Guards of the Highland Broadsword as taught at Mr. H. Angelo's academy https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1856-0913-240
  36.   Alfred Hutton 1889 Cold Steel: A practical treatise on the Sabre https://www.hroarr.com/manuals/sabre-cutlass-broadsword-rapier/Hutton_ColdSteel.pdf
  37.   John Musgrave Waite (1880) Lessons in sabre, singlestick, sabre & bayonet, and sword feats https://archive.org/details/lessonsinsabresi00wait/page/58/mode/2up
  38.   Russ Mitchell, ‘Friends don’t let friends fence “Cold Steel.”, https://youtu.be/KTi2y4oSFVw?t=243 4:03
  39.   Alfred Hutton 1889 Cold Steel: A practical treatise on the Sabre https://www.hroarr.com/manuals/sabre-cutlass-broadsword-rapier/Hutton_ColdSteel.pdf  page 36
  40.   Alfred Hutton 1889 Cold Steel: A practical treatise on the Sabre https://www.hroarr.com/manuals/sabre-cutlass-broadsword-rapier/Hutton_ColdSteel.pdf  plate XIII
  41.   Russ Mitchell, ‘Friends don’t let friends fence “Cold Steel.”, https://youtu.be/KTi2y4oSFVw?t=290 4:50
  42.   Russ Mitchell, ‘Friends don’t let friends fence “Cold Steel.”, https://youtu.be/KTi2y4oSFVw?t=331 5:31
  43.   Alfred Hutton 1889 Cold Steel: A practical treatise on the Sabre https://www.hroarr.com/manuals/sabre-cutlass-broadsword-rapier/Hutton_ColdSteel.pdf page 36
  44.   Alfred Hutton 1889 Cold Steel: A practical treatise on the Sabre https://www.hroarr.com/manuals/sabre-cutlass-broadsword-rapier/Hutton_ColdSteel.pdf plate V
  45.   Russ Mitchell, ‘Friends don’t let friends fence “Cold Steel.”, https://youtu.be/KTi2y4oSFVw?t=325 5:25
  46.   Alfred Hutton 1889 Cold Steel: A practical treatise on the Sabre https://www.hroarr.com/manuals/sabre-cutlass-broadsword-rapier/Hutton_ColdSteel.pdf plate III
  47.   Alfred Hutton 1889 Cold Steel: A practical treatise on the Sabre https://www.hroarr.com/manuals/sabre-cutlass-broadsword-rapier/Hutton_ColdSteel.pdf page 36
  48.   Russ Mitchell, ‘Friends don’t let friends fence “Cold Steel.”, https://youtu.be/KTi2y4oSFVw?t=365 6:05
  49.   Russ Mitchell, ‘Friends don’t let friends fence “Cold Steel.”, https://youtu.be/KTi2y4oSFVw?t=331 5:31
  50.   Alfred Hutton 1889 Cold Steel: A practical treatise on the Sabre https://www.hroarr.com/manuals/sabre-cutlass-broadsword-rapier/Hutton_ColdSteel.pdf page 79
  51.   Alfred Hutton 1889 Cold Steel: A practical treatise on the Sabre https://www.hroarr.com/manuals/sabre-cutlass-broadsword-rapier/Hutton_ColdSteel.pdf page 36
  52.   Russ Mitchell, ‘Friends don’t let friends fence “Cold Steel.”, https://youtu.be/KTi2y4oSFVw?t=416 6:56
  53.   Alfred Hutton 1889 Cold Steel: A practical treatise on the Sabre https://www.hroarr.com/manuals/sabre-cutlass-broadsword-rapier/Hutton_ColdSteel.pdf page 13
  54.   Sir Richard Francis Burton (1876) A New System of Sword Exercise for Infantry https://burtoniana.org/books/1876-A%20New%20System%20of%20Sword%20Exercise%20for%20Infantry/index.html page 14
  55.   Russ Mitchell, ‘Friends don’t let friends fence “Cold Steel.”, https://youtu.be/KTi2y4oSFVw?t=454 7:34
  56.   Henry Charles Angelo ‘the younger’(1845) Infantry Sword Exercise http://www.fioredeiliberi.org/topics/sources/1845-infantry-sword-exercise.pdf page 45
  57.   Rowland George Allanson-Winn (1890) Broad-Sword and Single-Stick With Chapters on Quarter-Staff, Bayonet, Cudgel, Shillalah, Walking-Stick, Umbrella and Other Weapons of Self-Defence www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/31214
  58.   Alfred Hutton 1889 Cold Steel: A practical treatise on the Sabre https://www.hroarr.com/manuals/sabre-cutlass-broadsword-rapier/Hutton_ColdSteel.pdf plate VI
  59.   Russ Mitchell, ‘Friends don’t let friends fence “Cold Steel.”, https://youtu.be/KTi2y4oSFVw?t=572 9:32
  60.   Alfred Hutton 1891 The Swordsman: A manual of Fence and the defence against an uncivilised enemy , page 71
  61.   Matt Easton, The Revised Sword Exercise for the Royal Navy & British Army of Sergeant William Tuohy https://www.antique-swords.co.uk/revised-infantry-sword-exercise-by-william-tuohy
  62.   John Musgrave Waite (1880) Lessons in sabre, singlestick, sabre & bayonet, and sword feats https://archive.org/details/lessonsinsabresi00wait/page/58/mode/2up
  63.   Russ Mitchell, ‘Friends don’t let friends fence “Cold Steel.”, https://youtu.be/KTi2y4oSFVw?t=383 6:23
  64.   Works of Sir William Hope (1660-1724) available at https://sirwilliamhope.org/Library/Hope/index.html
  65.   Ashley L Cohen, ‘Fencing and the Market in Aristocratic Masculinity’, in Sporting Cultures, 1650-1850, 2018, <https://www.academia.edu/36030754/Fencing_and_the_Market_in_Aristocratic_Masculinity?email_work_card=title>
  66.   Keith Farrell 2018 How Scottish is the broadsword method of Roworth and Angelo? https://www.keithfarrell.net/blog/2018/06/how-scottish-is-the-broadsword-method-of-roworth-and-angelo/
  67.   Sieveking, A. F., and Julian Lock. "Hutton, Alfred (1839–1910), swordsman." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. 23 Sep. 2004; Accessed 3 Oct. 2022. https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-34078
  68.   Alfred Hutton 1889 Cold Steel: A practical treatise on the Sabre https://www.hroarr.com/manuals/sabre-cutlass-broadsword-rapier/Hutton_ColdSteel.pdf page 2
  69.   Russ Mitchell, ‘Friends don’t let friends fence “Cold Steel.”, https://youtu.be/KTi2y4oSFVw?t=94
  70.   Alfred Hutton 1889 Cold Steel: A practical treatise on the Sabre https://www.hroarr.com/manuals/sabre-cutlass-broadsword-rapier/Hutton_ColdSteel.pdf page 4

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