Caleb Hallgren posted this in another thread:
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It happened in the 19th and 20th centuries when masters such as Raedelli tried to impose duelling sabers and civilian saber fighting onto the military cavalry with bad results.
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I responded that the Radaellian treatise contains nothing of any reference to horses, cavalry, mounted use, or anything of the sort.
Yet, a quick google search reveals many statements along the lines of "Radaelli was a military veteran, and as such was soley concerned with mounted troops" and so on. The major thing I have noticed about these statements, is that none of them provide any sort of citation or source for the statement.
While I come from the Radaellian lineage through Santelli - Not much seems to be known about Radaelli as a person, beyond his birth and death dates, and the treatise concerning his system.
Can anyone here provide any sort of citable source material, or even 2nd hand accounts of conversations, etc, that would shed any light on these claims, other than by referencing the claims themselves in a sort of circular logic?
In sum, my question whether there is any valid, verifiable reason for the claims to exist, or are they merely an extension of the modern myth that the modern fencing sabre comes directly from a cavalry background (entirely ignoring infantry sabre use) and because Radaelli lived back in the old days, and taught sabre, and because the cavalry was used back in the old days, and used sabres, that therefore Radaelli must have taught a form of cavalry sabre?
Certainly, Radaelli taught at the military school in Milan, and later in Rome - but that does not equal, on its face, the teaching of cavalry.
Anyone?
