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Duelling: The Code of Honor: Or, Rules for the Government of Principals and Seconds in Duelling

By John Lyde Wilson

Book information

Publisher
Duke Classics
ISBN
9781620114209
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
169 kB (172780 bytes)
Pages
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Time added
2022-12-30 09:24:59
History; Sociology; Nonfiction; HIS000000; SOC0000

Description

Originally this was published by the author (1784-1849), a former governor of South Carolina, as a 22-page booklet, in 1838. Before his death he added an appendix of the 1777 Irish duelling code, but this second edition was not printed until 1858, as a 46-page small book, still sized to fit in the case with one's duelling pistols. This code is far less blood-thirsty than many might suppose, but built on a closed social caste and standards of behavior quite alien to today.

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