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a formal agreement that the best way to resolve disagreement is gunfire at dawn.
means A prearranged, formal fight between two people, fought under agreed rules with matching weapons, traditionally to settle a question of honor.
from From Latin 'duellum,' an old poetic form of 'bellum' (war). The two words share a root, and ancient writers liked 'duellum' for its archaic ring. Later, medieval Latin reshaped it under the influence of 'duo' (two), so the word came to feel like 'a war between two' — a happy collision of sound and sense that gave us the modern duel.
- vp's kill count
- Aaron Burr fatally shot Alexander Hamilton in 1804
- deliberate miss
- firing into the air was called a delope
- second's job
- the friend who helped you possibly die honorably
- still legal
- Paraguay permits duels if both are blood donors
burr hamilton duel — alexander hamilton killed by aaron burr in weehawken, new jersey, 1804
andrew jackson duels — andrew jackson fought multiple duels, killed charles dickinson in 1806
lincoln douglas debates — abraham lincoln and stephen douglas held 7 formal debates in illinois, 1858