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Alexander Tolmer Quotes

1815–1890

Alexander Tolmer (1815 – 7 March 1890) was a South Australian Police Commissioner. He was educated at Plymouth, Rouen, Maidstone and Hawkhurst.

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In truth the lance is a fearful weapon, especially in a charge, but experience has since taught me that an expert swordsman, when engaged in a hand-to-hand combat, has the advantage over the Lancer, in that, by a quick, dexterous parry and guard, he can slip under the lance, and then his adversary is at once at his mercy.

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