See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canne_de_combat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canne_de_combat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartitsu https://en.wikipe

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canne_de_combat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canne_de_combat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartitsu https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartitsu (related to the first link—it's a martial art Sherlock Holmes is familiar with, in the Doyle stories) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singlestick https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singlestick The photos at the tops of the the second two links are great. All the sailors in the last one, facing off in lines with their stick-swords, and the dudes in boater hats posing with their sticks like they're LARPers who accidentally put on a costume for the wrong setting, at the second link.