So, you’ve been challenged to a duel. What are the rules? (2016)

Re:So, you’ve been challenged to a duel. What are the rules?... by nerdponx on Thursday February 23, 2023 @10:57PM (#34920588)

This was written in 1847, well after dueling had fallen out of fashion, and well after the USA had begun to develop its own distinctly American cultural identity. So it sounds like this was meant to be a "fun lighthearted history" book, rather than a documentation of how people actually behaved in the 1840s. Not unlike my favorite bathroom reader of all time, The Strange Laws Of Old England.

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Re:So, you’ve been challenged to a duel. What are the rules?... by bryanrasmussen on Friday February 24, 2023 @04:01AM (#34922514)

According to Mark Twain in Pudd'nhead Wilson the 1850s was a time when 'The people took more pride in the duel than in all the other events put together, perhaps.'

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Re:So, you’ve been challenged to a duel. What are the rules?... by nerdponx on Friday February 24, 2023 @08:26AM (#34924238)

I stand corrected!

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Re:So, you’ve been challenged to a duel. What are the rules?... by penguinvondoom on Friday February 24, 2023 @04:27AM (#34922696)

Duelling was very much going on in the mid 19th century, tho ...

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Re:So, you’ve been challenged to a duel. What are the rules?... by bravura on Friday February 24, 2023 @07:18AM (#34923733)

Eye gouging remained quite popular in America through the 1800s

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Re:So, you’ve been challenged to a duel. What are the rules?... by JamesSwift on Friday February 24, 2023 @09:48AM (#34924993)

The subtitle of the book includes "with amusing anecdotes illustrative of dueling" so I think it was definitely a whimsical look back in time.

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