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if they were knights, common soldiers, or maybe just entourage. There's no record on the social status of these men. It remains unclear what crusade brought on the unfortunate exile.if a contingent of fighters indeed made up the entire original land-wrecked party, or if only a handful of men was accepted into an indigenous population. Indeed, Halliburton believes to have recognized French and German fragments in the otherwise unintelligible dialect of the people. The Khevsoor considered themselves the direct descendants of a party of crusaders who got separated from a larger army and got stranded in this remote area. These men hailed from remote region of the Caucasus–and area cut off from the outside world by ice and snow for a full nine months out of each year. Their mission: Upon learning that their Czar was at war, they wanted to put their swords at his disposal. They were armed with rusty chain armor, sword and buckler, and carried rifles of amazing antiquity. In 1915, a year after the outbreak of World War I, the citizens of Tblisi woke up to watch a troop of mounted warriors ride down the cobble-stoned streets. Some of these isolated sub-cultures still retained traces of fighting systems that even the great cultural levelers of the century, Communism and Fascism/Nazism, required decades to eradicate.Ī the fringes of civilized Europe, in the ranges of the Caucasus mountains, the American traveler Richard Halliburton (1900-1939) heard a curious tale in 1935, when he visited the city of Tblisi in the then Soviet republic of Georgia. When the 20th century kicked off in Europe, there remained pockets of backward populations virtually untouched by industrialization and the advances in communication. Sword and Buckler Fighting among the Lost Crusaders This hodge-podge of styles is to be expected from a tribe without more than basic metalworking capabilities. Other fighters carry regionally made weapons of the qama and Kindjal patterns.

The photo of Halliburton shows him posing in mail shirt with buckler, and a 19th-century Mameluke-style saber. Seven League Boots, Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1935 p. Journal of Western Martial Art Sword and Buckler Fighting among the Lost Crusadersġ.