From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is a list of people killed in duels by date:
14th century
16th century
17th century
Sir John Townshend , English politician, by Sir
Matthew Browne on Hounslow Heath, London – 1603.
[5] Browne himself was killed on the spot by Townshend, who in turn died of his wounds the following day.
Peter Legh , English politician, by Valentine Browne – 1640
[6]
Armand d'Athos , inspiration for the
Alexandre Dumas character of the same name – 1643
[7]
Charles Price , English politician, by Capt. Robert Sandys at Presteigne – 1645
[8]
Sir Henry Bellasis (heir of
John Belasyse, 1st Baron Belasyse ), by
Thomas Porter (dramatist) at Covent Garden, London – 1667
[9]
Francis Talbot, 11th Earl of Shrewsbury , by the Duke of Buckingham – 1668
[10]
Walter Norborne , English politician, by an Irishman at the fountain at
Middle Temple , London – 1684
[11]
Major
Sharington Talbot ,
Member of Parliament for
Chippenham , at the White Hart Inn,
Glastonbury , by
Captain Love, a fellow-officer of the
Wiltshire Militia – 8 July 1685
[12]
John Talbot, brother of the Earl of Shrewsbury, by
Henry Fitzroy, 1st Duke of Grafton – 1686
[13]
Sir Henry Hobart , English politician, by
Oliver Le Neve on Cawston Heath, Norfolk – 1698
[14]
18th century
Sir John Hanmer, 3rd Baronet , English politician – 1701
[15]
Charles Mohun, 4th Baron Mohun , perennial duellist and
James Hamilton, 4th Duke of Hamilton , in
Hyde Park, London . The
Hamilton–Mohun Duel – 1712
[16]
Peder Tordenskjold , Norwegian naval officer, by Jakob Axel Staël von Holstein – 1720
[17]
George Lockhart ,
Scottish politician and writer,
Jacobite
spy – 1731
[18]
Richard Nugent, Lord Delvin , by Capt. George Reilly at Marlborough Bowling Green, Dublin – 1761
[19]
Button Gwinnett , signer of the
Declaration of Independence by
Lachlan McIntosh near Savannah, Georgia – 1777
[20]
Sir Barry Denny, 2nd Baronet – 1794
[21]
19th century
Philip Hamilton , son of former
U.S. Secretary of the Treasury ,
Alexander Hamilton , by
George I. Eacker , in
Weehawken, New Jersey – 1801
[22]
Richard Dobbs Spaight , delegate to the
Continental Congress and
Governor of North Carolina , by
John Stanly – 1802
[23]
Peter Lawrence Van Allen, lawyer, by
William Harris Crawford , future
U.S. Secretary of the Treasury , at
Fort Charlotte in South Carolina – 1802
[24]
Alexander Hamilton , former
U.S. Secretary of the Treasury , by U.S. Vice President
Aaron Burr , in
Weehawken, New Jersey – 1804
[25]
Thomas Pitt, 2nd Baron Camelford , English peer and naval officer, by his friend Thomas Best near Holland House, London – 1804
[26]
Charles Dickinson , by future U.S. President
Andrew Jackson – 1806
[27]
Robert Case, naval officer, by naval surgeon
William Bland at
Cross Island, Bombay – 1813
[28]
Charles Lucas , legislator in Missouri Territory, by U.S. Senator
Thomas Hart Benton – 1817
[29]
Armistead Thomson Mason , U.S. Senator from Virginia – 1819
[30]
Stephen Decatur , American naval hero, by
James Barron – 1820
[31]
John Scott , founder and editor of the London Magazine – 1821
[32]
Joshua Barton , first Missouri Secretary of State – 1823
[33]
Henry Wharton Conway , Arkansas politician – 1827
[34]
Thomas Biddle &
Spencer Darwin Pettis (both killed in the same duel) - 1831
Évariste Galois , mathematician – 1832
[35]
Robert Lyon , last Canadian duelling fatality – 1833
[36]
Aleksandr Pushkin ,
Russian poet and writer of the
Romantic era , by
Georges d'Anthès – 1837
[37]
Jonathan Cilley , U.S. Representative from Maine, by
William J. Graves – 1838
[38]
Mikhail Lermontov , Russian poet and writer of the Romantic era – 1841
[39]
George A. Waggaman , U.S. Senator from Louisiana – 1843
[40]
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. Killed by Frenchman,
Emmanuel Barthélemy in the last duel in the United Kingdom – 1852
David C. Broderick , U.S. Senator from California – 1859
[43]
Lucius M. Walker , Confederate Civil War general – 1863
[44]
Ferdinand Lassalle , German socialist leader – 1864
[45]
Manuel Corchado y Juarbe , Puerto Rican poet, journalist and politician – 1884
[46]
Felice Cavallotti , Italian radical leader – 1898
[47]
References
^ Jager, Eric (2005).
The Last Duel: A True Story of Crime, Scandal, and Trial by Combat in Medieval France . London: Century.
ISBN
0-7126-6190-5 .
OCLC
59199040 .
^ Eyzaguirre, José Ignacio Víctor (1855).
Histoire ecclésiastique, politique et littéraire du Chile (in French). Lille, France: L. Lefort. p. 146.
^ Buckle, Henry Thomas (1872). Taylor, Helen (ed.).
The Miscellaneous and Posthumous Works of Henry Thomas Buckle . London: Longmans, Green and Company. pp.
385 . william drury duel.
^ Collier, John Payne (1841).
Memoirs of Edward Alleyn: Including Some New Particulars Respecting Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Massinger, Marston, Dekker, &c . London: Shakespeare Society. p. 50.
^ Chambers, John (1829).
A General History of the County of Norfolk, Intended to Convey All the Information of a Norfolk Tour: With the More Extended Details of Antiquarian, Statistical, Pictorial, Architectural, and Miscellaneous Information; Including Biographical Notices, Original and Selected . London: J. Stacy. p. 547.
^ Burke, John (1837).
A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry; Or, Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland . Vol. II. London: Henry Colburn. p. 687.
^ Dumas, Alexandre (1991).
The Man in the Iron Mask . Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. pp. xv.
ISBN
9780191561177 .
^
"PRICE, CHARLES (died 1646), of Pilleth, Rads., soldier and politician" .
Dictionary of Welsh Biography .
National Library of Wales . Retrieved 2019-04-11 .
^ Kietzman, Mary Jo (2004).
The Self-fashioning of an Early Modern Englishwoman: Mary Carleton's Lives . Aldershot and Burlington, VT: Ashgate. p. 144.
ISBN
9780754608592 .
^ Francis, Whellan (1874).
History, Topography and Directory of Northamptonshire. Comprising a General Survey of the County, and a History of the City and Diocese of Peterborough . London: Whellan Francis and co. p. 549.
^ Aubrey, John (1862).
Wiltshire: The Topographical Collections of John Aubrey, F. R. S., A. D. 1659-70, with Illustrations . London: The Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society. p. 35.
^ Drummer Adam Wheeler, Iter Bellicosum , in
David G. Chandler , Sedgemoor 1685: An Account and an Anthology , London: Anthony Mott, 1985, ISBN 0-907746-43-8, pp. 130–7.
^ Ellis: Lord Dover, George Agar (1831).
Letters Written During the Years 1686, 1687, 1688, and Addressed to John Ellis, Esq. Secretary to the Commissioners of His Majesty's Revenue in Ireland: Comprising Many Particulars of the Revolution, and Anecdotes Illustrative of the History and Manners of Those Times. Edited, From the Originals, With Notes and a Preface, by Lord Dover . London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley. pp. 36–37.
^
Norfolk Archaeology, Or, Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to the Antiquities of the County of Norfolk . Norwich: Norfolk and Norwich Archaeological Society. 1849. pp.
71 . duel henry hobart 1698.
^ Hanmer, John (1876).
A Memorial of the Parish and Family of Hanmer in Flintshire Out of the Thirteenth Century Into the Nineteenth Century . London: Press at the Chiswick Press. p. 180.
^ Banks, Stephen (2012).
Duels and Duelling . London: Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 23.
ISBN
9780747812685 .
^ Upham, Warren (2001).
Minnesota Place Names: A Geographical Encyclopedia . St. Paul, MN: Minnesota Historical Society Press. p. 429.
ISBN
9780873513968 .
^ Irving, Joseph (1885).
The West of Scotland in History . Glasgow: Robert Forrester. p. 79.
ISBN
9785876499455 .
^ Kearsley, George (1796).
Kearsley's Complete Peerage of England, Scotland and Ireland; Together with an Extinct Peerage of the Three Kingdoms, List of All Their Family Names, Titles of Elder Sons Etc and Translation of Their Mottos . London: Geo. Kearsley. p. 335.
^ Chamberlain, Ryan (2009).
Pistols, Politics and the Press: Dueling in 19th Century American Journalism . Jefferson, NC and London: McFarland. p. 24.
ISBN
9780786452538 .
^ O’Shea, Owen; Revington, Gordon (2018).
Century of Politics in the Kingdom: A County Kerry Compendium . Newbridge, ireland: Merrion Press.
ISBN
9781785372032 .
^ H.B.D. (February 1872).
"American Duels" . The Historical Magazine . I : 124 – via
Google Books .
^ Morton, Joseph C. (2006).
Shapers of the Great Debate at the Constitutional Convention of 1787: A Biographical Dictionary . Shapers of the Great American Debates. Vol. 8. Westport, CT and London: Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 279.
ISBN
9780313330216 .
^ Lewis, Herbert James (2018).
Alabama Founders: Fourteen Political and Military Leaders Who Shaped the State . Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press. p. 83.
ISBN
9780817359157 .
^ Chermak, Steven; Bailey, Frankie Y. (2016).
Crimes of the Centuries: Notorious Crimes, Criminals, and Criminal Trials in American History [3 volumes]: Notorious Crimes, Criminals, and Criminal Trials in American History . Vol. I. Santa Barbara, CA and Denver, CO: ABC-CLIO. p. 130.
ISBN
9781610695947 .
^ Tayler, Alistair; Tayler, Henrietta (2001) [1925].
Lord Fife and His Factor Being the Correspondence of James Second Lord Fife, 1729 - 1809 . Honolulu, HI: University Press of the Pacific. p. 211.
ISBN
9780898755718 .
^ Kohn, George C. (2000) [1989].
The New Encyclopedia of American Scandal . New York: Infobase Publishing. p. 203.
ISBN
9781438130224 .
^ Cobley, John (1966).
"Bland, William (1789–1868)" . Australian Dictionary of Biography . Vol. 1. Melbourne University Press.
^ Barns, Chancy Rufus; Conant, Alban Jasper; Switzler, William F.; Swallow, George Clinton; Campbell, Robert Allen; Harris, William Torrey (1877).
The Commonwealth of Missouri: a Centennial Record . St. Louis, MO: Bryan, Brand & Company. pp.
481 –486. duel 1817 charles lucas.
^ Copeland, Pamela C.; McMaster, Richard K. (2016) [1975].
"Chapter Ten. George Mason IV: Sibling and Progeny" . The Five George Masons (Second ed.). Fairfax, VA: George Mason University Press. p. 247.
ISBN
9781942695011 .
^ Allison, Robert J. (2007) [2005]. "Chapter 23. "I never was your enemy, sir" ".
Stephen Decatur: American Naval Hero, 1779-1820 . Amherst and Boston, MA: University of Massachusetts Press. pp. 212–215.
ISBN
9781558495838 .
^ Timperley, C. H. (1839).
A Dictionary of Printers and Printing, with the Progress of Literature, Ancient and Modern; Bibliographical Illustrations . London: H. Johnson. p. 879.
^ Ravenswaay, Charles Van (1991).
St. Louis: An Informal History of the City and Its People, 1764-1865 . St. Louis, MO: Missouri Historical Society Press. p. 203.
ISBN
9780252019159 .
^ Kane, Joseph Nathan; Aiken, Charles Curry (2005).
The American Counties: Origins of County Names, Dates of Creation, and Population Data, 1950-2000 (Fifth ed.). Lanham, MA, Toronto, Oxford: Scarecrow Press. pp.
72 .
ISBN
9780810850361 . duel 1827 henry wharton conway.
^ Alexander, Amir R. (2010).
Duel at Dawn: Heroes, Martyrs, and the Rise of Modern Mathematics . Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press. pp.
1 .
ISBN
9780674046610 . duel 1832 Evariste Galois.
^ Mullington, Dave (2005).
Chain of Office: Biographical Sketches of the Early Mayors of Ottawa (1847-1948) . Renfrew, Ontario: General Store Publishing House. p. 39.
ISBN
9781897113172 .
^ Greenleaf, Monika; Moeller-Sally, Stephen (1998).
Russian Subjects: Empire, Nation, and the Culture of the Golden Age . Studies in Russian Literature and Theory. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press. p. 302.
ISBN
9780810115255 .
^ Clark, Suzanne M. (1998).
New England in U.S. Government Publications, 1789-1849: An Annotated Bibliography . Westport, CT and London: Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 117.
ISBN
9780313281280 .
^ Roberts, Spencer E. (1965).
Soviet Historical Drama: Its Role in the Development of a National Mythology . The Hague, Netherlands: Springer. p. 189.
ISBN
9789401508674 .
^ Swanson, Betsy (2003).
Historic Jefferson Parish: From Shore to Shore . Gretna, LA: Pelican Publishing. p. 82.
ISBN
9781455605767 .
^ Chamberlain, Ryan (2009).
Pistols, Politics and the Press: Dueling in 19th Century American Journalism . Jefferson, NC and London: McFarland. pp. 91–92.
ISBN
9780786452538 .
^ Kulczyk, David (2013).
California Fruits, Flakes, and Nuts: True Tales of California Crazies, Crackpots and Creeps . Fresno, CA: Linden Publishing. p. 12.
ISBN
9781610351942 .
^ Ethington, Philip J. (2001) [1994].
The Public City: The Political Construction of Urban Life in San Francisco, 1850-1900 . Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press. p. 177.
ISBN
9780520230019 .
^ Smith, Derek (2005).
"Appendix II: Wartime Deaths from Other Causes" . The Gallant Dead: Union and Confederate Generals Killed in the Civil War . Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books. p. 369.
ISBN
9780811701327 .
^ Barnes, Thomas Garden (1980).
"Ferdinand Lassalle and the German Labor Movement" . Nationalism, Industrialization, and Democracy, 1815-1914 . A Documentary History of Modern Europe. Vol. III. Lanham, New York, London: University Press of America. p. 195.
ISBN
9780819110794 .
^ Osorio, Carlos Rojas (2002).
Pensamiento filosófico puertorriqueño (in Spanish). San Juan, Puerto Rico: Isla Negra Editores. pp. 13–14.
ISBN
9781881715917 .
^ Sanz, Fernando García (1994).
Historia de las relaciones entre España e Italia: imágenes, comercio y política exterior : 1890-1914 (in Spanish). Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas. p. 132.
ISBN
9788400067380 .
See also