French Napoleonic Sabre Briquet Tested on Analog Gel Head! 

+JT Jensen you are a danish royal guard

it's a machete

Yes and the corporal and up ranked individiuals in the center companies also carried them as a sign of rank and status

@@antekmarciniak7315 yes it was both a tool,secondary weapon,and honorific symbol. Also musicians,flag bearers and artillerymen used it (the later used them mainly to cut the grass while setting up a gun)

You are most welcome.

Yeah me too. If one bought two one could cut a clip out of the blade of one and one could make a real bowie whilst leaving one an historically accurate French weapon.

+bjmccann1 Having a shorter sword does mean you can make a broader blade. Cutlasses are short-ish and are very powerful cutters. The issue with shorter swords isn't hitting power, it's reach. That's compounded on a sword like this in that it has very little hand protection. These weren't used a lot for fighting since the priority was to use the musket, then the bayonet, then the briquet. They were used a lot as machete-like camp tools however, so they were quite versatile and the D-guard does help alleviate the issue of all-brass grips being slippery. I have a French sword bayonet and it lacks that guard and would be extremely difficult to use detached from the rifle without the thing flying out of your hand. It seems to have been a French idiosyncrasy to make weapons with all-brass grips, as British and other nation's hangers and sword bayonets seemed to have mostly used wooden, leather or painted steel grips on these types of weapon.

+Parfett44 If we obtain one we shall compare them :D

+ThegnThrand great idea

+Karl Englewood Thanks and have not examined many historical versions but I could see how thicker back with extra heft would add much more weight to the blow and cutting ability. I would say its fair and much like some cutlass I have handled but not the thickest backswords or cutlass by any means. It is balanced well and heavy enough apparently to preform well enough to surprise us :D

+ThegnThrand Quick note about the sword, it wasn't just the French that used it, most of continental Europe and Russia have adopted the sword as side arms for close quarters fighting. If you want to see where the evolution of this weapon continued, look up the Chassepot bayonet or the late Minié rifle bayonets. You can probably pick up an unmatching/scabbardless Chassepot for around $50 give or take. Having repro is nice, but there's something about the originals that give them a nice feel to them as you use them that the reproductions can't replicate. Cheers

+Brian Renninger The Shako might provide a small amount of protection against light cuts, especially if the individial soldier stuffed it with rags or other padding, but at the time they were not considered a sufficient form of protection from sabre blows. The primary function of the shako was to make the soldier appear taller, which is why a lot of them did away with the body of the hat and simply had a large facade instead.

lancer D Seems like a shako would provide a sort-of crumple-zone for, at most, the overhead blows. On the neck cuts, while also not the real purpose of the item, I think the stocks would provide some protection but, mostly deflect the blow into other parts of the neck. But, it would be interesting to see a test. Particularly with a light sword like the briquet how much even minimal protection influences the effect.

+Matthew Hooper Very true I did use a cast blow towards the end but it could have been done by anyone in the heat of battle to gain extra power almost an instinctual move if you ask me. Yes we did not expect much due to shape, length and weight compared to our usual test but did preform way better than we expected it too.

The blade is light, and it looks to be less than two feet long. In many cases this usually means it's weaker in the cut.

The Russian M1817 version had a 9cm longer blade than the French original and fullered. It was almost on full size saber territory.

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It's a french sword

no carabinier are riflemen

no carabineers are heavy Calvary that wear breastplates. By my "" you could tell I was quoting them. Riflemen were not really present in his army the closest to it were voltiguers

Crystal Gaming actualy at the origin carabinier was like dragoon and was usued like mounted rfleman , it napoleon who made carabiner was hevay infantry

druisteen I was referring back to the first one but yes he did do that do you know what carbide they used

@@bryelop Actually they were curassiers. They're the ones that wore the breastplates.

Substandard Gamer Kiba true like a cutlass.

Accelerate faster? Doesn't that contradict the lever effect? Definitely more handy so maybe that's what you mean.

Agreed

40-50 cm

+Robert Eklund Not low quality was out of focus on intro. If the resolution seems low on youtube might be that has not processed fully yet. I just uploaded it.

+Robert Eklund does seem to be low quality might have to re-render it thanks for pointing that out does not seem to be resolved with processing.

ThegnThrand No problem.

+ThegnThrand Love the vids but the focus issues on many of your vids are rather annoying.