Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The Duel: A history of duelling by Robert Baldrick; Banks, Stephen. A Polite Exchange of Bullets; The Duel and the English Gentleman, 1750–1850, (Woodbridge: Boydell 2010) Banks, Stephen. "Very little law in the case: Contests of Honour and the Subversion of the English Criminal Courts, 1780–1845" (2008) 19(3) King's Law Journal 575–594.
The duel : a history of duelling (London: Chapman & Hall, 1965), worldwide online; Banks, Stephen. Duels and Duelling (2012), European context online; Coleman, J. Winston. "The Code Duello in Antebellum Kentucky," in A Kentucky Sampler: Essays from The Filson Club History Quarterly 1926–1976 (2014): 118+ ISBN 978-0-8131-5258-5 online
This is a list of Old West gunfights.Gunfights have left a lasting impression on American frontier history; many were retold and embellished by dime novels and magazines like Harper's Weekly during the late 19th and early 20th century.
Daniel participated in a number of duels during his lifetime. [26] Private Marx Cohen Jr. Private Thomas R. Chew: March 19, 1865: North Carolina: No injuries [27] Said to be the final duel of the Confederacy; their seconds put blanks in their pistols, both walked away unharmed, and both were killed later that day at Battle of Bentonville. [27]
The Duel: A History, Robert Baldick (1965, 1996) Dueling With the Sword and Pistol: 400 Years of One-on-One Combat, Paul Kirchner (2004) Duel, James Landale (2005). ISBN 1-84195-647-3. The story of the last fatal duel in Scotland; Ritualized Violence Russian Style: The Duel in Russian Culture and Literature, Irina Reyfman (1999).
"Duelling in old New Orleans" (1950) Dueling was a common practice in the Southern United States from the 17th century until the end of the American Civil War in 1865. Although the duel largely disappeared in the early nineteenth century in the North, it remained a common practice in the South (as well as the West) until the battlefield experience of the American Civil War changed public ...
January 1805. Duel papers, William P. Ness papers, New York Historical Society. Wilson, James Grant (1869). "The Weehawken Dueling Ground". Literature, Science, and Art. 1 (11): 339– 340. Archived from the original on July 11, 2007. Winfield, Charles H. (1874). History of the County of Hudson, New Jersey from Its Earliest Settlement to the ...
James Alexander Seton, the last British person to die in a duel in the United Kingdom – 1845; John Hampden Pleasants, American newspaper editor – 1846 [41] Edward Gilbert, U.S. newspaper editor, by James W. Denver near Sacramento – 1852 [42] Frédéric Constant Cournet, French revolutionary.