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British Army officer of the Black Watch, veteran of Tel el-Kebir and later Inspector General of Gymnasia at Aldershot. He wrote on physical drill, bayonet exercise and military physical training.
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Scottish soldier and adventurer, also known in Spain as Juan Downie. He served in the Peninsular War, commanded the Leal Legión Extremeña, and produced the 1814 Madrid collection of plates on attack and defence with the lance.
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English courtier and diplomat who served James I and Charles I as Master of the Ceremonies. His Paris letter of 1609/10 argued against duelling and was printed posthumously in 1720.
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Irish barrister, parliamentarian, judge and memoirist who opposed the Act of Union. Sir Jonah Barrington wrote vivid but sometimes unreliable accounts of Georgian Irish political and social life, including Personal Sketches of His Own Times.
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English landowner, architect, engineer and author noted for promoting wrestling as physical education. Sir Thomas Parkyns systematised grappling practice in Progymnasmata: The Inn-Play, or Cornish-Hugg Wrestler, first issued in 1713 and expanded in 1727.
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Società di Scherma e Ginnastica dei Dilettanti in Livorno is represented in the reviewed catalogue records as author of “Stabilimento di scherma e ginnastica costituito in società sotto la denominazione Società di Scherma e Ginnastica dei Dilettanti in Livorno” (1873). No additional biographical identity or secure life dates are asserted beyond these linked manifestations.
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Società di Scherma in Verona is represented in the reviewed catalogue records as author of “Statuto della Società di Scherma in Verona” (1870). No additional biographical identity or secure life dates are asserted beyond these linked manifestations.
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Société du Contre de Quarte is represented in the reviewed catalogue records as author of “Code du duel” (1897). No additional biographical identity or secure life dates are asserted beyond these linked manifestations.
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Catalogue authority heading SOLERA, associated in the reviewed records as author of “Titulo de Maestro de la Filosofia, y Destreza de las Armas, para en todos los Reynos, y Señorios de Su Magestad” (1710). The surviving sources used by this catalogue do not support a safe expansion of the heading or secure life dates; it is retained explicitly as an unresolved historical attribution.
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Sontag is represented in the reviewed catalogue records as author of “Der studentische Zweikampf, das Schlägerduell und dessen Bestrafung” (1881). No additional biographical identity or secure life dates are asserted beyond these linked manifestations.
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Catalogue authority heading SOUTH, associated in the reviewed records as author of “Case of Duelling considered with respect to Challenger andChallenged” (1773). The surviving sources used by this catalogue do not support a safe expansion of the heading or secure life dates; it is retained explicitly as an unresolved historical attribution.
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