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19th November 2015, 05:07 PM
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'I came,
I saw, I emptied my purse.' What a true statement. LOL 
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22nd November 2015, 11:14 PM
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I'm assuming the sheer number of edged weapons carried by these chaps in the etchings are for artistic license only. The firearms, on the other hand, may be accurate. Pirates liked to carry an assortment of guns stashed away in pockets, bandoliers, straps, belts, etc, for combat due to the pieces being a 'one shot deal'.
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23rd November 2015, 11:03 PM
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There is a thread here of photographs of ethnic peoples and their weapons. I think you might be surprised. Ottoman warriors in particular seemed to like a sash full of tools.
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23rd November 2015, 11:30 PM
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I don't think Jean Leon Gerome strayed too far from reality in his paintings.
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24th November 2015, 09:34 PM
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I think part of it might be to do with the expected useful "life" of a blade in serious combat. The Japanese have a saying about this, "one battle or a thousand years". This is actually the thinking behind Samurai carrying two swords, during the Sengoku Jidai and early Edo they are nearly the same length, later they devolve to a long sword plus a much shorter blade. Even in later years, when they decided to "really go for it" they carried two blades of nearly the same length.
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