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Author :John A. Atkinson Publisher :Bloomfield, Ont. : Museum Restoration Service ; London : Arms & Armour Press ISBN 13 : Total Pages :120 pages Book Rating :4.3/5 (91 download)
Book Synopsis The British Duelling Pistol by : John A. Atkinson
Download or read book The British Duelling Pistol written by John A. Atkinson and published by Bloomfield, Ont. : Museum Restoration Service ; London : Arms & Armour Press. This book was released on 1978 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :Museum Restoration Service Publisher :Bloomfield, Ont. : Museum Restoration Service ISBN 13 :9780919316348 Total Pages :36 pages Book Rating :4.3/5 (163 download)
Book Synopsis London Gunmakers and the English Duelling Pistol, 1770-1830 by : Museum Restoration Service
Download or read book London Gunmakers and the English Duelling Pistol, 1770-1830 written by Museum Restoration Service and published by Bloomfield, Ont. : Museum Restoration Service. This book was released on 1995 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pistols at Dawn written by John Norris and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2009-03-02 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In modern society the thought that someone would organise a deadly competition with a rival, risking his life over a point of honour, is incomprehensible. That this form of resolution would become an accepted 'sport', with noble gentlemen even possessing sets of special duelling pistols, is insane. This fascinating history of the practice of duelling takes the reader into the intriguing world of pistols, 'fields of honour' and mortal combat, a world where complex rules governed a system of dispute which often ended in death. With tales of tragic loss, ridiculous quarrels and often hilarious combat, John Norris takes the reader on a journey of discovery through some of the most dramatic disputes of history.
Download or read book Pistols at Dawn written by Richard Hopton and published by Little Brown GBR. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the gross and unjustifiable insults you have offered me both as a soldier and a gentleman, I conclude you must be prepared to give me that satisfaction I am entitled to. I am therefore to request that you will name a place and hour of meeting.' So runs a typical challenge to a duel from the early 19th century; formal, polite - and potentially fatal. Duelling is deeply imbedded in our collective consciousness, through numerous films and novels; it evokes a golden past, of gentlemen defending their honour (or that of their wives) in the early morning light of a wooded glade; of frockcoats, rapiers and pistols. From the duel's roots in medieval chivalric tournaments, to the unforgiving code of honour in which death was preferable to shame, this fascinating history recounts - with the aid of numerous vivid eye-witness accounts - all the drama and sheer terror of the duel.
Download or read book Pistols at Dawn written by Richard Hopton and published by Piatkus Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Duelling is embedded in our collective consciousness, through numerous films and books. This book traces the history of the duel from its medieval antecedents in trial by combat and chivalric tournaments. Using numerous accounts of actual duels, it shows how the arcane rules of the duel evolved.
Book Synopsis A Polite Exchange of Bullets by : Stephen Banks
Download or read book A Polite Exchange of Bullets written by Stephen Banks and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2010 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores why minor slights to certain kinds of gentlemen led to duels in order for honour to be satisfied, and how such ideas about honour changed over time.
Download or read book Touché written by John Leigh and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2015-06-08 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of the West’s best writers fought in duels or wrote about them, seduced by glamour or risk or recklessness. A gift as a plot device, the duel also offered a way to discover how we face fears of humiliation, pain, and death. John Leigh’s literary history of the duel illuminates these and other tensions attending the birth of the modern world.
Book Synopsis The Pursuit of Honour by : Louis M. H. Bremers
Download or read book The Pursuit of Honour written by Louis M. H. Bremers and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Duels and Duelling by : Stephen Banks
Download or read book Duels and Duelling written by Stephen Banks and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-09-20 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A duel could result from any challenge to a gentleman's honour, from minor insult to major accusation. At a prearranged time, two men at odds would meet, armed either with swords or pistols, to engage in a formal and sometimes fatal exchange. Gentlemen considered it their prerogative to fight, despite the illegality of duelling, and figures as prominent as the Duke of Wellington and Georges Clemenceau defended their honour in this way. Why did participants flout the law, what codes were followed, what were the changing roles of the seconds, and what were the consequences for victims and victors? Stephen Banks answers these questions and examines the evolution from Norman trials-by-combat to the formalised duel, analysing the custom's decline in England by Victorian times and its final disppearance from Europe by the twentieth century.
Book Synopsis The Book of the Pistol and Revolver by : Hugh B. C. Pollard
Download or read book The Book of the Pistol and Revolver written by Hugh B. C. Pollard and published by . This book was released on 2014-05-09 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a facsimile of "The Book of the Pistol" by Hugh B. C. Pollard, originally published in 1917. Written from a British perspective, this book is a complete treatise on the handgun and its uses. A book that was intended for both the handgun collector and the avid shooter, Pollard covers the fascinating history of the pistol, starting with the invention of gunpowder and continuing up until the modern era (1917). He explains the technological advancements and the wars in which each the pistol was used. Pollard then turns an eye to the practical, focusing on learning how to shoot and develop great skill with the handgun. He introduces the reader to both target shooting and practical self defence shooting. The book includes many photographs as well as tables of technological data.
Book Synopsis British Pistols and Guns, 1640-1840 by : Ian Glendenning
Download or read book British Pistols and Guns, 1640-1840 written by Ian Glendenning and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Art of Duelling written by Art and published by . This book was released on 1836 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Duel in European History by : Victor Kiernan
Download or read book The Duel in European History written by Victor Kiernan and published by Zed Books Ltd.. This book was released on 2016-07-15 with total page 509 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For centuries, duelling played an integral role in the preservation of the aristocratic order in Europe, defying attempts by both church and state to ban the practice. Moreover, the romance and drama of the duel has made it an enduring fixture in films, literature, and the theatre. In The Duel in European History, renowned historian Victor Kiernan writes with his characteristic wit and insight of duelling's evolution from its medieval origins – when it was regarded as a badge of rank - to the early twentieth century, by which time it was seen as an irrational anachronism. In doing so, he shows how the duelling tradition was something unique to Europe and its colonies, and, in its contribution to the development of the officer corps, played a key part in shaping European military power. Drawing on a vast range of historical and cultural sources, this is the definitive account of a violent ritual that continues to fascinate even today.
Book Synopsis English Pistols and Revolvers by : John Nigel George
Download or read book English Pistols and Revolvers written by John Nigel George and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis "George Washington's" Last Duel by : Thomas Nelson Page
Download or read book "George Washington's" Last Duel written by Thomas Nelson Page and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-05 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ""George Washington's" Last Duel: 1891" by Thomas Nelson Page takes place in the south, on a plantation. George Washington is the plantation owner's slave, butler, majordomo, and the man who oversees the other men and women on the grounds. Through his work and cleverness, he's managed to secure a comfortable place of "quasi-freedom." However, when a woman from the north comes to visit, things start to change.
Book Synopsis Duelling Pistols, and Some of the Affairs They Settled by : John A. Atkinson
Download or read book Duelling Pistols, and Some of the Affairs They Settled written by John A. Atkinson and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Beyond This Horizon by : Robert A. Heinlein
Download or read book Beyond This Horizon written by Robert A. Heinlein and published by Baen Publishing Enterprises. This book was released on 2014-09-16 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Utopia has been achieved. For centuries, disease, hunger, poverty and war have been things found only in the histories. And applied genetics has given men and women the bodies of athletes and a lifespan of over a century. They should all have been very happy.... But Hamilton Felix is bored. And he is the culmination of a star line; each of his last thirty ancestors chosen for superior genes. Hamilton is, as far as genetics can produce one, the ultimate man. And this ultimate man can see no reason why the human race should survive, and has no intention of continuing the pointless comedy. However, Hamilton's life is about to become less boring. A secret cabal of revolutionaries who find utopia not just boring, but desperately in need of leaders who know just What Needs to be Done, are planning to revolt and put themselves in charge. Knowing of Hamilton's disenchantment with the modern world, they have recruited him to join their Glorious Revolution. Big mistake! The revolutionaries are about to find out that recruiting a superman is definitely not a good idea.... With an all new afterword by Tony Daniel. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).
