User blog comment:El Alamein/Shakespeare's Warriors vs. Rome's Enemies/@comment-379205-20130714061437/@comment-5931345-20130715132019

There were records of Rapier being used in the battlefield. Conquistadors like Hernan Cortez  (espada ropera is similar), Miguel Lopez De Legazpi, and Ferdiand Magellan used it. French Musketeers and the French Royal Guard uses it. The Knights Hospitaller uses it in their victorious defense against the scimitar armed Ottomans during the Seige of Malta.