Slitherine

Pieter Meulener is a very interesting Flemish painter of battle scenes in the mid-17th century (1642-1654), especially cavalry ones. Here is an interesting detail. Some historians say that most western musketeers preferred to use their musket as a club in close combat, instead of their sword. Some cavalrymen are said to throw their pistols at their enemy, once unloaded. Here is a cavalryman depicted as using his long pistol as a club against a swordsman (with a broken sword) he had grabbed by the sash (is it the word ?) :



The whole painting here.

Here are some of his cavalry paintings kept in France : https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/search/ ... eter%22%5D

At the Prado Museum, here

Looks like Sunday dinner at my house...

That swordsman is going to have a nasty headache.

I've seen images of pistols with lead weights on the end of the handle for use as a club. Once fired, why not?

English Civil War infantry