Newspaper Reports of Duels Fought at the Bladensburg Dueling Ground
Posted by: Robert Brammer
We have previously written about dueling, a practice by which gentleman who considered themselves of equal social standing would respond to a serious insult by fighting, sometimes to the death, with pistols. Many of these duels were fought at the Bladensburg Dueling Ground, located just outside the boundaries of Washington, D.C. One of my favorite …
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