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A duel is a combat between persons armed with lethal weapons \u2014 usually swords or guns \u2014 that is held according to prearranged rules to end a quarrel or to settle a point of honor. A duel can only occur as the result of a challenge, it must be conducted in a measured way adhering to a set of rules, the participants must use identical weapons, and it must take place in front of witnesses. --- ## \ud83c\udff0 Origins: Judicial Combat We can trace the origins of the duel back to quite a specific date \u2014 501 BCE \u2014 when Gundebald, the King of the Burgundians, legally established the trial by combat, or judicial duel. 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In Scandinavia, a duel was called a *holmgang* and could be triggered for any number of reasons, such as a property dispute.\n\n\n\n---\n\n## \ud83e\udd3a Duels of Honor\n\n\n\nSometime, probably in the 10th century, judicial duels inspired what most of us think of when we think of duels \u2014 \"chivalric duels,\" also known as \"duels of honour.\" These duels were very much associated with the concept of knighthood (though this later developed into the status of being a \"gentleman\") and were, ostensibly, civilized means of resolving disputes and perceived slights.\n\n\n\n\n\nDuels of honor were prevalent in France during the 16th century, leading to an ordinance in 1566 that punished duel participants by death. The practice persisted, however, especially in political disputes.\n\n\n\n\n\nIn 1777, a group of Irishmen codified dueling practices in a document called the **Code Duello**.\n\n\n\n---\n\n## \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 Dueling in America\n\n\n\nLike many early American customs, dueling was imported.\n\n \n\nOn June 18, 1621 \u2014 seven months after their arrival in Plymouth \u2014 two indentured servants named Edward Doty and Edward Leister engaged in a duel that left them both wounded. It marked the introduction of the duel in this new society. But it wasn't until the 1760s that dueling really began gaining popularity in the United States.\n\n\n\n\n\nWhile duels had long been fought over a woman's hand or to defend a man's honor, in America, dueling took on a new importance: it was used to settle political differences.\n\n\n\n\n\nA man's reputation was integral to his social standing in early American society, and dueling was a way for him to defend and bolster his name in the public sphere. \"Honor was the core of a man's identity,\" explains historian Joanne Freeman. \"It did not exist unless bestowed by others.\" If a man's honor was ever challenged, he had to defend himself.\n\n\n\n---\n\n## \ud83d\udd2b Famous Duels\n\n### Hamilton vs. Burr (1804)\n\n\nOn July 11, 1804, years of escalating personal and political tensions culminated in the most famous duel in American history: the standoff between Alexander Hamilton, a leading Federalist and former secretary of the treasury, and Aaron Burr, who was then serving as vice president under Thomas Jefferson.\n\n \n\nHamilton missed his opponent but was promptly shot in the stomach; he died the next afternoon. Few affairs of honor actually resulted in deaths at the time, and the nation was outraged by the killing of a man as eminent as Alexander Hamilton. Public opinion turned against Burr, who was charged with murder and later arrested for treason in an unrelated incident.\n\n\n\n### Andrew Jackson vs. Charles Dickinson (1806)\n\n\nJackson called for the duel after Dickinson described his wife Rachel as a bigamist. On May 30, 1806, the two men met with pistols in hand, standing 24 feet apart in accordance with dueling custom. 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