The third of the fencing weapons, the saber, wasintroduced into Europe in the late 18th century as an ad-aptation of the Turkish scimitar, used by the Hungariancavalry.
Each time, their creativity would force them to engage with different weapons, alternating between pistols, sabers, and rapiers - mounted and unmounted.
They were long, flat, and not very good at twisting or bending, as you can see in the many painful-looking broken sabers that have been found in the fossil record.