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Going on what I've seen in museums, the smallsword was generally much shorter than a metre. It was essentially a long dagger. (129.11.76.230 09:02, 30 March 2006 (UTC))[reply]

This article doesn't seem to discuss historicity in various countries in much detail, feeling US-centric if anything. Mousenight (talk) 17:03, 19 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

This article definitely needs to be globalized. The two references to the United States Army seem out of place.

Humphrey Tribble (talk) 07:58, 15 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

As early as the Boer War, British Army officers were ordered not to carry their swords in battle because it made them an obvious target. Doubtless, some continued to do so, and there is a famous photograph of a British officer carrying his sword on a D-Day beach. However, stating that this occurred frequently simply isn’t correct. Humphrey Tribble (talk) 08:09, 15 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

The photo of jack churchill is used in sword He carried it on a training exercise, not d-day. Humphrey Tribble (talk) 19:28, 23 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

This phrase is used in the lede in conjunction with the legacies of older blades, like the rapier, that influenced small sword design. A spindle has a cylindrical cross section. There is no such thing as a rapier with a cylindrical “blade”, since by definition a rapier has one or two cutting edges and a cylinder could not possibly have any. I have never encountered “spindle” used to describe blade cross section; even the shaft of a tuck/estoc is faceted with a square or triangular section. Did an editor with a severely underdeveloped vocabulary mean “lenticular”? This is the accepted term for a cross section that is thicker in the center and tapers by convex slope to edges on either side. 2603:9001:4500:1C09:F50E:F782:FE3C:BE6 (talk) 15:56, 25 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]