French for "large stick," this is a European fencing system that uses a approximately 4-foot-long staff. Grand canne shares many mechanics with longsword and quarterstaff.
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... of Martin Gerritz de Vries[?] in the 17th century, and still better from those of La Pérouse (1787) and Krusenstern (1805). Both, however, regarded it as a peninsula, and ...