Wed 1 Nov 2006
Famous Duellists
Posted by Alexander under Hate
- Salvador Allende (President of Chile; draw against Raúl Rettig)
- Otto von Bismarck (German chancellor; draw against Georg Freiherr von Vincke)
- Giacomo Casanova (Playboy; draw against Franz Xaver Branicki)
- Alexandre Dumas (French writer; draw against Frédéric Gaillardet)
- Alexander Hamilton (Co-founder of the US of A; lost against Aaron Burr)
- Heinrich Heine (German writer; draw against Salomon Strauss)
- Andrew Jackson (US president; won against Charles Dickinson)
- Ferdinand Lassalle (German socialist; lost against Count von Racowitza)
- Mikhail Lermontov (Russian poet; lost against Nikolai Martynov)
- Marcel Proust (French writer; draw against Jean Lorrain)
- Alexander Pushkin (Russian poet; lost against Georges d'Anthès)
This is the first post for the 'November of lists'. It's easy to slap together a list - do so!