List of people killed in duels

List of people killed in duels

This is a list of people killed in duels:

* Francis Talbot, 11th Earl of Shrewsbury, by the Duke of Buckingham — 1668
* perennial duellist Charles Mohun, 4th Baron Mohun and James Hamilton, 4th Duke of Hamilton, in Hyde Park, London — 1712
* Peder Tordenskjold — 1720
* George Lockhart, Scottish politician and writer, Jacobite spy; 1731; key supporter of the Acts of Union 1707, but later repented and revealed the extent of English bribery.
* Button Gwinnett, Signer of the Declaration of Independence — 1777
* Alexander Hamilton, Former U.S. Treasury Secretary, by Aaron Burr — 1804
* Charles Dickinson, by US President Andrew Jackson — 1806
* US Senator Armistead Thompson Mason — 1819
* Stephen Decatur, Hero of War in Tripoli — 1820
* John Scott, founder and editor of the London Magazine — 1821
* Henry Wharton Conway, Arkansas politician — 1827
* Évariste Galois, Mathematician — 1832
* Robert Lyon, last Canadian duelling fatality — 1833
* Aleksandr Pushkin, Poet — 1837
* Jonathan Cilley, U.S. Representative from Maine, by William J. Graves — 1838
* Mikhail Lermontov, Poet — 1841
* George A. Waggaman, U.S. Senator from Louisiana — 1843
* David C. Broderick, U.S. Senator from California — 1859
* Lucius M. Walker, Confederate Civil War general — 1863
* Ferdinand Lassalle German socialist leader, 1864

ee also

*Lists of people by cause of death
*List of famous duels


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