He based his style on fencing, though this approach was sometimes criticized as unrealistic for military combat. He was considered not just an expert in fighting, but also as a pioneer of United States Marine Corps training in the bayonet and hand to hand combat. He can be seen training Marines in the RKO short documentary Soldiers of the Sea.
ANTHONY JOSEPH DREXEL BIDDLE MANUAL
Īn officer in the United States Marine Corps, Biddle was an expert in close-quarters fighting and the author of Do or Die: A Supplementary Manual on Individual Combat, a book on combat methods, including knives and empty-hand skills, training both the United States Marine Corps in two world wars and Special Agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Biddle was a graduate of Germany's Heidleberg University. A 1955 Sports Illustrated article called him "boxing's greatest amateur" as well as a "major factor in the re-establishment of boxing as a legal and, at that time, estimable sport." īorn October 1, 1874, to Edward and Emily Drexel Biddle, into one of Pennsylvania's oldest families (William Biddle, Society of Friends member, left London for America in 1681), he married Cordelia Rundell Bradley in 1895. He formed a movement called "Athletic Christianity" that eventually attracted 300,000 members around the world. He was a fellow of the American Geographical Society, was renowned as an eccentric gentleman with his fortune allowing him full-time pursuits of theatricals, self-published writing, athletics, and Christianity he also kept alligators as pets. Livingston Ludlow BiddleĪnthony Joseph Drexel Biddle I (1874–1948), also known as Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle, Sr., was the man upon whom the book My Philadelphia Father and the play and film The Happiest Millionaire were based.
The Woodlands (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)Īnthony Joseph Drexel Biddle, Jr.
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