List of duels

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Ilya Repin's picture of the duel from Eugene Onegin

The following is a list of notable one-on-one duels or single combats in history and in legend or fiction.

Contents

Antiquity

Middle Ages

Robert the Bruce killing Henry de Bohun in single combat during a battle Bruce defeats de Bohun on the eve of Bannockburn, from a children's history book.jpg
Robert the Bruce killing Henry de Bohun in single combat during a battle

Early modern and modern duels

Asia

Australia

Canada

China

France

Germany

Great Britain and Ireland

India

Italy

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Women Gladiators (Jusepe de Ribera, 1636)

Malta

Serbia

New Zealand

Portugal

Russia

Spain

South America

Argentina

  • 1814: Buenos Aires, Argentina. Colonel Luis Carrera, brother of Chilean revolutionary General José Miguel Carrera, killed Colonel Juan Mackenna in a duel. The reason was the sense of honor that the Carreras had, as Mackenna disrespected the family name many times. This was the second time that both duellists met, and the third time that Mackenna was challenged in a duel by a Carrera (the first time it was by Luis Carrera himself, while the second time it was by his brother, Juan José Carrera, the oldest of the brothers and noticeable by his strength. Yet Mackenna was able to run away from the duels both times). They dueled at night, in the first round, Mackenna shot at his head, but missed and blew Carrera's hat away, in the second round, Carrera was able to hit Mackenna in his hand, blowing his thumb away and piercing a hole in his throat, thus killing Mackenna. Carrera was arrested the next day, particularly because Mackenna was part of a secret society called Lautaro Lodge, which had the control of the government at the time.
  • November 3, 1968, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Admiral Benigno Ignacio Varela and journalist Yolivan Biglieri were protagonists of the last duel know to have taken place in Argentina according to the rules of chivalry. [55]

Chile

Uruguay

  • 1920: Former President José Batlle y Ordóñez shot and killed Washington Beltrán Barbat in a formal duel. The former president challenged Beltrán, a journalist after he became offended by statements published by Beltrán in the newspaper El País . The former president was no stranger to duels having previously challenged two others, whom he considered to have besmirched his dignity. [57]

Sweden

Switzerland

United States

Proposed duels

Duels in legend, mythology and religious text

Notable examples of single combat in legend , mythology and religious text:

Duels in fiction

See also

Footnotes

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  5. "How-e to Live by Plunder". The Australian. No. 179. 17 March 1827. p. 3. Retrieved 22 November 2024 via National Library of Australia.
  6. Gray, Nancy, "William John Dumaresq (1793–1868)", Australian Dictionary of Biography, Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, retrieved 2024-11-22
  7. "PISTOLS FOR TWO". The West Australian . Vol. XLIX, no. 9, 524. Western Australia. 5 January 1933. p. 17. Retrieved 16 June 2017 via National Library of Australia.
  8. "MAGISTRATES COURT". The Perth Gazette and Western Australian Journal . Vol. III, no. 105. Western Australia. 3 January 1835. p. 419. Retrieved 16 June 2017 via National Library of Australia.
  9. lists a later fatal duel on 22 May 1838 at Verdun, Québec
  10. O'Neill-Yates, Chris (December 28, 2018). "How a pair of men in St. John's survived the last duel fought on Canadian soil". CBC News. Retrieved January 10, 2025.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  11. Zizhi Tongjian, Chapter 61, Han Annal 53, Emperor Xian of Han, the Second Year of Xingping
  12. 1 2 Baldick, Robert (1970). The duel : a history of duelling. Internet Archive. London : Spring Books. ISBN   9780600328377.
  13. Lewis G. M. Thorpe: Nottingham French Studies, V. 41. W. Heffer., 2002.
  14. Florence Marryat: Her Father's Name
  15. Alden, Douglas W. (1938). "Marcel Proust's Duel, by Douglas W. Alden". Modern Language Notes. 53 (2). The Johns Hopkins University Press.: 104–106. doi:10.2307/2912041. JSTOR   2912041.
  16. Nottingham Evening Post, Sat 16 Jun 1904 p. 5
  17. "Un Duel de Cinema". Le Monde.fr. 8 October 1949.
  18. "DUEL FOUGHT NEAR PARIS WITH SABRES". The Argus . Melbourne. 20 April 1949. p. 4. Retrieved 23 October 2015 via National Library of Australia.
  19. Account of the Defferre-Ribière duel with pictures (in French). (Translated)
  20. "BROOKE ALIAS COBHAM, William (1565–97)". The History of Parliament. Retrieved 26 July 2017.
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  24. 'Hyde Park', Old and New London: Volume 4 (1878), pp. 375–405. Date accessed: 25 December 2007.
  25. 1 2 3 "Hyde Park | British History Online". British-history.ac.uk. 2003-06-22. Retrieved 2009-10-19.
  26. Annals of Cambridge Vol IV (1852) p. 441-2
  27. "Cambridge Chronicle", 31 Mar 1792 p. 5
  28. Alumni Cantabrigienses Part II (1940) by J. A. Venn p. 64
  29. Reading Mercury, 5 November 1792, p. 1
  30. Tracy, Nicholas (2006). Who's Who in Nelson's Navy: 200 Naval Heroes. London: Chatham Publishing. p. 236. ISBN   978-1-86176-244-3.
  31. Hopton, Richard (2008). "Prologue". Pistols at Dawn: A History of Duelling. Piatkus Books. pp. 1–5. ISBN   978-0-7499-2996-1.
  32. "Caledonian Mercury", Sat 11 Jul 1807 p. 3
  33. "Aberdeen Press and Journal", Wed 20 Apr 1808 p. 4
  34. "British Press", Wed 31 Aug 1808 p. 3
  35. "Gloucester Journal", Mon 20 Jul 1807 p.\ 4
  36. "Dublin Evening Post", Tue 9 Aug 1808 p. 3
  37. Sir Walter Scott (1811). The Edinburgh Annual Register. John Ballantyne and Company. p. 151.
  38. "Multitext - Daniel O?Connell". Archived from the original on 2013-07-30. Retrieved 2013-07-30.
  39. Buchan, George (1823). Remarks on duelling; comprising observations on the arguments in defence of that practice. Edinburgh: Waugh & Innes. pp.  1-161.
  40. "Belfast Commercial Chronicle", Sat 28 Jan 1826 p.\ 2
  41. "Essex & Herts Mercury", Tue 20 Mar 1832 p. 1
  42. "The Newgate Calendar – THE EARL OF CARDIGAN". Exclassics.com. Retrieved 2009-10-19.
  43. "Morning Chronicle", Wed 13 Jul 1842 p. 5
  44. "Globe", Fri 15 Jul 1842 p. 3
  45. "1855: Emmanuel Barthelemy, duelist". Executed Today. 22 January 2014. Retrieved 25 October 2014.
  46. Wolpert, Stanley (2004) [First published 1977]. A New History of India (7th ed.). Oxford University Press. p. 190. ISBN   978-0-19-516677-4.
  47. Pérez Sánchez, Alfonso E.; Spinosa, Nicola; Bayer, Andrea (1992). Jusepe de Ribera: 1591 – 1652. Metropolitan Museum of Art. pp. 110–111. ISBN   978-0-87099-648-1.
  48. "Il Duce's Duelist Dies in Argentina". The Spartanburg Herald . 15 September 1937.
  49. Late RAMC, Col W Bonnici. "The 35th (Dorsetshire) Regiment of Foot". www.maltaramc.com. Retrieved 27 October 2018.
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  51. "Fought duel with Swords," Montreal Gazette, July 3, 1924.
  52. O último duelo que aconteceu em Portugal Diário de Notícias, April 8, 2016.
  53. Leier, Mark (2007-04-01). Bakunin: The Creative Passion. Macmillan. ISBN   9781429906487 . Retrieved 2013-08-14.
  54. "Women Watch Duel of Russian Generals," NY Times, March 19, 1908.
  55. Infobae "La sangrienta historia del último duelo en la Argentina: traición, sables y odio para pelear hasta la muerte" by Eduardo Anguita. Buenos Aires June 4, 2019
  56. Sánchez Latorre, Luis (8 January 2005). "Pasando y Pasando Eres un fifiriche, eres un zascandil". (Opiniones). Las Últimas Noticias (in Spanish). Archived from the original on June 16, 2008.
  57. "Ex-President of Uruguay Kills Editor In Formal Duel Fought With Pistols," NY Times, April 3, 1920.
  58. Cecilia af Klercker (1903). Hedvig Elisabeth Charlottas dagbok II 1783–1788 (The diaries of Hedvig Elizabeth Charlotte II) (in Swedish). P.A. Norstedt & Söners förlag. p. 212.
  59. Ocampo, Ambeth (2010). Looking Back. Anvil Publishing, Inc. pp. 20–22. ISBN   978-971-27-2336-0.
  60. "BBC article: Bush challenged to 'duel' with Saddam, October 3, 2002". BBC News. 2002-10-03. Retrieved 2009-10-19.
  61. Wallace, Kelly (October 3, 2002). "W. H. rejects Bush-Saddam duel offer". CNN.com. (CNN Washington Bureau). Archived from the original on April 17, 2009. Retrieved 2009-10-19.

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