{"id":21664,"date":"2019-02-19T05:00:39","date_gmt":"2019-02-19T09:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=21664"},"modified":"2019-02-17T19:31:38","modified_gmt":"2019-02-17T23:31:38","slug":"10-ridiculous-gentlemans-duels-fought-over-nothing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=21664","title":{"rendered":"10 Ridiculous Gentleman\u2019s Duels Fought Over Nothing"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ward Hazell and Listverse present 10 Ridiculous Gentleman\u2019s Duels Fought Over Nothing<\/a>.\u00a0 It’s hard to imagine a time where dueling was legal and even crazier when you consider some of the rules (Check out what rule was broken in the duel between Andrew Jackson And Charles Dickinson).\u00a0 At any rate, here are three of my favorites and my summaries of why (check out the Listverse article for full details)…<\/p>\n

Alexander Hamilton And Aaron Burr<\/strong>
\nAaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton were two of our Nation’s Founding Fathers. They were both patriots having\u00a0 fought in the American Revolution. Burr was Vice President and Hamilton the first Secretary of the Treasury. The two men disliked each other so when Hamilton was to have said something unflattering about Burr and refused to apologize a duel with pistols was arranged.<\/p>\n

Hamilton fired first and missed.\u00a0 Some believe that Hamilton, “as was customary for a gentleman, deliberately missed. Burr, on the other hand, whether by accident or design, shot Hamilton in the stomach, tearing through his internal organs and paralyzing him. Hamilton died 36 hours later.”<\/p>\n

Andrew Jackson And Charles Dickinson<\/strong>
\nIn 1806, Andrew Jackson challenged Charles Dickinson to a duel after Dickinson insulted Jackson\u2019s wife and called Jackson a \u201cpoltroon and a coward.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dickinson was no stranger to duels and chose pistols.\u00a0 Dickinson fired first striking Jackson and breaking two of his ribs.\u00a0 Jackson’s gun misfired, so he recocked it and shot Dickinson dead.<\/p>\n

Here’s where it gets crazy.\u00a0 Dueling rules required each man to fure ar the same time.\u00a0 If one man fired first the second man should fire in the air and not take time for a deliberate shot! “Though there was some unpleasantness over the issue, Jackson was never charged with murder. He was troubled with pain from the injury for the rest of his life, but it did his career no harm, as he went on to become the seventh president of the United States.”<\/p>\n

Monsieur Granpree And Monsieur Le Pique<\/strong>
\nIn 1808 Monsieur Granpree discovered his mistress having an affair with Monsieur Le Pique.\u00a0 The men agreed to a duel to settle the issue… they would fight from balloons in the air.<\/p>\n

After a month of training, each man entered his balloon with a blunderbuss and a second.\u00a0 A crowd had gathered to watch this most unusual duel.\u00a0 The balloons lifted into the air and the restraining cords cut.\u00a0 The duel was on.<\/p>\n

Le Pique fired first but missed. Granpree’s shot struck the balloon and as you can imagine, things went downhill quickly for Le Pique.\u00a0 “Le Pique and his second were \u201cdashed to pieces”…\u00a0 when his balloon shredded and fell to the ground.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ward Hazell and Listverse present 10 Ridiculous Gentleman\u2019s Duels Fought Over Nothing.\u00a0 It’s hard to imagine a time where dueling<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[72,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-trivia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21664"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21665,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21664\/revisions\/21665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}