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2330
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Before he became the nation's seventh President, Andrew Jackson fought a number of duels because of what he considered insults to his wife Rachael. Only one of the duels was fatal to his opponent, however.
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10656
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Governor John Owen challenged his opponent for a seat in the General Assembly, Richard Melvin, to a duel after losing the election. Governor Owen, who had previously been involved with a challenge to duel a Senate seat opponent, Willie P. Mangum, challenged Melvin to a duel, with tradition stating that the challenged person was allowed to make their choice of weapons. As Governor Owen was known as a crack shot and an excellent swordsman, Melvin, who was a much larger man, chose broadaxes, face to face, for the duel in an effort to level the playing field. Governor Owen declined and Melvin's honor was preserved.
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11515
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Duels were fought between some well-known North Carolinians in the 19th-century, and some were fatal. One of the earliest took place in 1802 in Craven County between John Stanly and Richard Dobbs Spaight, a former Governor and member of the Continental Congress.
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11908
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Many famous duels have taken place in North Carolina, both before and after the law against them was passed in 1803. The most famous of these incidents can be narrowed down to three events consisting of the Spaight-Stanley, Carson-Vance, and Stanly-Henry, duels.\r\n
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12320
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The custom of the duel continued with the colonists in America and eventually in North Carolina. Though forbidden legislature in 1802, duels persisted in North Carolina regularly until the end of the Civil War; then the practice dramatically declined. North Carolina's eighth governor and Constitution signer, Richard Dobbs Spaight, Sr., was killed in a duel with John Stanly over a political quarrel.
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13477
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On 12 August 1788, Andrew Jackson and Waightstill Avery dueled in the Western Judicial District of North Carolina. The argument, which was about a joke related to the law reference book entitled Bacon's Abridgement, ended in a duel.
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13999
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An unusual rule in the duel was instrumental in saving Andrew Jackson's life in his duel against Charles Dickinson.
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14168
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Andrew Jackson's duel with Charles Dickinson is one of the most famous in American history.
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14525
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In the days when dueling was in flower, there were many challenges issued and accepted in North Carolina, like the three presented here.
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17238
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Duels were fought between some well-known North Carolinians in the 19th-century, and some were fatal. Lawrence recounts some of them including the Richard Dobbs Spaight-John Stanly duel of 1802; Samuel P. Carson-Dr. R.B. Vance of 1827; and the Thomas L. Clingman-William L. Yancey duel.
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20719
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This article provides an account of a duel between hotel manager Daniel Dugger and Democratic congressman from Virginia George C. Dromgoole in 1837. The piece draws heavily from an account of the event printed in the Brunswick Gazette by Warner Lewis (AKA \"Monitor,\") on January 19, 1893, and is supplemented by Lewis' additional research, primarily focused on Dromgoole's life and character and on the nature of formal duels.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 34 Issue 3, July 1957,
p237-345, f
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