Assertion: rapier | /r/HasProperty | replaced with small sword
Facets:
value: by the mid-eighteenth century
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: By the mid-eighteenth century, the rapier was replaced with the unedged dueling sword and small sword, the former if one wanted to disable or cripple an enemy in a duel without committing murder, the latter if one's motive was exactly that.
text: It's use and popularity had diminished by the end of the 17th century, having been replaced by the smallsword.