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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
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.
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 ...
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The duel between David C. Broderick and David S. Terry. The Broderick–Terry duel (subsequently called "the last notable American duel") [1] was fought between United States Senator David C. Broderick, of California, and ex-Chief Justice David S. Terry, of the Supreme Court of California, on September 13, 1859. [1]
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).
The History Channel compiled a list of some of the most famous ghosts throughout American history, and the stories will definitely give you the chills.
"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 ...