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Dueling with the Sword and Pistol: 400 Years of One-on-One Combat

Dueling with the Sword and Pistol: 400 Years of One-on-One Combat


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Paul Kirchner, author of The Deadliest Men and Jim Cirillo's Tales of the Stakeout Squad", has researched memoirs, trial transcripts and period newspapers to uncover a wealth of first-person and eyewitness accounts of deadly duels, going back more than 400 years. Dueling with the Sword and Pistol describes more than 60 life-or-death encounters; many have never been reprinted, and some appear in English for the first time. This wide-ranging study also examines bowie knife duels, horseback duels and the German Mensur, as well as profiling such notorious duelists as "Fighting" Fitzgerald, Aaron Burr, Lord Byron, Alexander Pushkin, Sam Houston and Benito Mussolini. Kirchner also discusses honor and insult, bretteurs and fire-eaters, dueling weapons and techniques, dueling codes, multiparty duels and duels to first blood, as well as such oddities as secret thrusts, duels between women, suicide duels and duels with one loaded pistol. Numerous prints and pen-and-ink drawings give added life to the accounts. This meticulously researched and highly entertaining book is for martial artists, fencers, historians and enthusiasts of edged weapons and firearms, as well as anyone who enjoys blow-by-blow accounts of mortal combat. AUTHOR: Paul Kirchner has been a writer and illustrator for more than 25 years. His work has appeared in publications ranging from Marvel comics to The Wall Street Journal to Paladin author Jeff Cooper's books. ILLUSTRATIONS: illustrated throughout

Table of Contents:
INTRODUCTION: THE DUEL OF HONOR 1; PART ONE: DUELING WITH THE SWORD 25; Ch 1:Seigneur de Jarnac vs. Seigneur de La Chataigneraie 43; Ch 2:Duel of the Mignons 51; Ch 3:Lord Edward Bruce vs. Sir Edward Sackville 56; Ch 4:Comte de Bussy vs. De Busc 62; Ch 5:Sir John Reresby vs. Macdemar 68; Ch 6:Duke of Hamilton vs. Lord Mohun 71; Ch 7:Duel with a Dancing Master 83; Ch 8:Lord Byron vs. Viscount Chaworth 86; Ch 9:Richard Sheridan vs. Capt. Thomas Mathews 91; Ch 10:William Whately vs. John Temple 102; Ch 11:Dueling in the Army of Napoleon 109; Ch 12: The Quadruple Duel of Gen. Fernando Fernandez de Cordova 115; Ch 13:A Duel in 1830 120; Ch 14:Captain Thimecourt vs. Poulaga 131; Ch 15:Baron de Deukhaus vs. De Bonnhart 137; Ch 16:Henri de Pene vs. Lieutenants Courtiel and Hyenne 141; Ch 17:Dillon vs. Duc de Gramont-Caderousse 146; Ch 18:Ollivier vs. Feuilherade 153; Ch 19:Baron Giovanni Nicotera vs. Francesco Lovito 158; Ch 20:Aurelien Scholl vs.Comte Albert de Dion 162; Ch 21:Senorita Marta Duran vs. Senorita Juana Luna 167; Ch 22:The Rothschild-Lubersac Affair 170; Ch 23:Eugenio Pini vs. Baron Athos di San Malato 178; PART TWO: DUELING WITH THE PISTOL 185; Ch 24:Sir Jonah Barrington vs. Richard Daly;William Barrington vs. Capt. Robert Rollo Gillespie 205; Ch 25:Duke of York vs. Lt. Col. Charles Lenox; Lt. Col. Charles Lenox vs.Theophilus Swift 214; Ch 26:The Duels of Col. Henry Hervey Aston 220; Ch 27:Lt. Col. Robert Montgomery vs. Capt. James Macnamara 225; Ch 28:Alexander Hamilton vs. Aaron Burr 230; Ch 29:Capt. John Swiney vs. Capt. Thomas Corbett 240; Ch 30:Thomas Moore vs. Francis Jeffrey 244; Ch 31:Lt. Benjamin Heazle vs. Lt. Joseph Francis Delmont 251; Ch 32:Duel with One Pistol 256; Ch 33:The Duels of Vincent Nolte 258; Ch 34:Col. William Cumming vs. Rep. George McDuffie 264; Ch 35:Gen. Sam Houston vs. Gen. William A. White 269; Ch 36:Robert Triplett vs. Philip Thompson 273; Ch 37:Alexander Pushkin vs. Baron Georges D'Anthes 279; Ch 38:Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston vs. Gen. Felix Huston 289; Ch 39:Rep. Jonathan Cilley vs. Rep. William Graves 295; Ch 40:Capt. Henry W. Allen vs. Dr. R.H. Marsteller 302; Ch 41:Thomas Ritchie Jr.vs. John Hampden Pleasants 307; Ch 42:Sen. David C. Broderick vs. Justice David S. Terry 314; Ch 43:John S. Wise vs. John S. Crockett 325; Ch 44:Col. Francisco Romero vs. Alberto Samson;Col. Francisco Romero vs. Lt. Col. Jose Verastegui 331; Ch 45:Hauptsturmfuhrer Roland Strunk vs.Gauleiter Horst Krutschinna 338; PART THREE: VARIATIONS ON THE DUEL 343; Ch 46:Duels on Horseback 345; Ch 47:The Mensur (German Student Duel) 355; Ch 48:Western Showdown vs. the Duel 374; Ch 49:The Bowie Knife Duel 378; Ch 50:The "American Duel" 385; Ch 51:Caning 389; PART FOUR:REMARKABLE DUELISTS 395; Ch 52:Peter Drake 397; Ch 53:Alexander Keith McClung 410; Ch 54:Benito Mussolini 425; Ch 55:George Robert (Fighting) Fitzgerald, the Most Extraordinary Duelist of All 436; CONCLUSION: THE END OF THE DUEL 453; SOURCES AND SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY 459

About the Author :
Paul Kirchner has been a writer and illustrator for more than 25 years. His work has appeared in publications ranging from Marvel comics to the Wall Street Journal to Paladin author Jeff Cooper's books.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781581604580
  • Publisher: Paladin Press,U.S.
  • Publisher Imprint: Paladin Press,U.S.
  • Height: 216 mm
  • No of Pages: 480
  • Sub Title: 400 Years of One-on-One Combat
  • ISBN-10: 1581604580
  • Publisher Date: 01 Nov 2004
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Width: 138 mm


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