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Author’s NoteDuels of honour were private encounters about real or imaginary insults. Duels with swords spread over Europe from Italy at the end of the fifteenth century. In France political duels were frequent in the nineteenth century and took place occasionally in the twentieth.
In England famous duels were those between Lord Castlereagh and George Canning in 1809 and between the Duke of Wellington and the tenth Earl of Winchelsea in 1829. An Act making duelling a Military affair in 1881 resulted in duels being fought abroad at Calais or Boulogne.
Hatchards bookshop still exists today at 190 Piccadilly.
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