Editing Sword (section)

====Military sword====
{{Further|Basket-hilted sword|Backsword|Sabre}}

A single-edged type of [[Sidearm (weapon)|sidearm]] used by the [[Hussites]] was popularized in 16th-century Germany under its Czech name ''[[dusack]]'', also known as ''Säbel auf Teutsch gefasst'' ("sabre fitted in the German manner").<ref>In 1579, [[Duchy of Styria|Styria]] records delivery of some 700 ''Dusäggen'' by local bladesmiths, besides payment of 40 ''Dusäggen'' delivered from [[Passau]], as part of the preparation for the [[Long Turkish War|war against the Turks]] under [[Charles II, Archduke of Austria|Archduke Charles II]]. [http://www.waffensammlung-beck.ch/waffe2.html "Säbel, 'Dusägge', Deutsch Ende 16. Jahrhundert"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303190005/http://www.waffensammlung-beck.ch/waffe2.html |date=3 March 2016 }}, Waffensammlung Beck, Inv-Nr.:Be 10.</ref> A closely related weapon is the ''schnepf'' or [[Swiss sabre]] used in [[Early Modern Switzerland]].<ref>Claude Blair, "The Early Basket Hilt in Britain" in: ''Scottish Weapons and Fortifications'' (ed. David H. Caldwell, 1981)</ref>

The [[cut-and-thrust]] [[mortuary sword]] was used after 1625 by [[cavalry]] during the [[English Civil War]]. This (usually) two-edged sword sported a half-basket hilt with a straight blade some 90–105&nbsp;cm long. Later in the 17th century, the swords used by cavalry became predominantly [[backsword|single-edged]]. The so-called [[walloon sword]] (''épée wallone'')<ref>Vladimir Brnardic, Darko Pavlovic, ''Imperial Armies of the Thirty Years' War (2): Cavalry'', [[Osprey Publishing]], 2010, {{ISBN|978-1-84603-997-3}}, [https://books.google.com/books?id=8yelxwMTfnUC&dq=walloon+sword&pg=PA20 p. 20]{{Dead link|date=August 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}.</ref> was common in the [[Thirty Years' War]] and [[Baroque]] era.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.myarmoury.com/review_pmc_papp.html|title=Pappenheimer Sword |first=Bill |last=Grandy |access-date=30 December 2016 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161102154632/http://myarmoury.com/review_pmc_papp.html |archive-date=2 November 2016}}</ref> Its hilt was ambidextrous with shell-guards and [[knuckle-bow]] that inspired 18th-century continental [[hunting hanger]]s.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/opacdirect/18948.html|title=Collections Explorer – Object Detail (HEN.M.219-1933, id:1)|first=The Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge|last=UK.|date=1 January 2012 |access-date=30 December 2016 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120402161142/http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/opacdirect/18948.html |archive-date=2 April 2012}}</ref> Following their campaign in the Netherlands in 1672, the French began producing this weapon as their first regulation sword.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.myarmoury.com/talk/viewtopic.php?t=13795|title=Walloon Swords |first=Nathan |last=Robinson |access-date=30 December 2016 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170629231452/http://myarmoury.com/talk/viewtopic.php?t=13795 |archive-date=29 June 2017}}</ref> Weapons of this design were also issued to the [[Swedish army]] from the time of [[Gustavus Adolphus]] until as late as the 1850s.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sfhm.se/|title=Statens försvarshistoriska museer|access-date=30 December 2016|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170104013814/http://www.sfhm.se/|archive-date=4 January 2017}}</ref>