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American military engineer, army officer, Union general and politician. George Brinton McClellan served in the Mexican-American and Civil Wars, commanded the Army of the Potomac, and prepared the United States Army Manual of Bayonet Exercise in 1852 from French practice.
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Scottish civil servant and writer associated with Kelloe. He is catalogued as author of the posthumously published 1826 Remarks on the late Trial of David Landale, concerning the fatal duel with George Morgan.
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Scottish humanist, poet, historian and royal tutor whose Latin paraphrases of the Psalms circulated widely across Europe. Duellum poeticum (1618) explicitly compares George Buchanan’s Psalm 104 paraphrase with that of George Eglisham.
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British statesman who served twice as foreign secretary and briefly as prime minister in 1827. His linked letters concern the political dispute that led to his 1809 duel with Viscount Castlereagh.
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Scottish physician and Latin controversialist who served as a royal physician and published Duellum poeticum in London in 1618. That volume staged a comparison between his paraphrase of Psalm 104 and that of George Buchanan.
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British cavalry officer, writer on horsemanship and later geological controversialist. Colonel George Greenwood published A Cavalry Sword Exercise in London in 1840.
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George Hale is represented in the reviewed catalogue records as author of “Private Schoole of Defence” (1614). No additional biographical identity or secure life dates are asserted beyond these linked manifestations.
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George Heintz is represented in the reviewed catalogue records as author of “Theory of Fencing with the Foil” (1890). No additional biographical identity or secure life dates are asserted beyond these linked manifestations.
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British army officer and Lord Mohun’s second in the fatal 1712 duel with the Duke of Hamilton. A published letter bearing his name gives an account of the events; the Folger catalogue notes that a manuscript annotation attributes its composition to another London writer.
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Scottish lawyer, public prosecutor, antiquary and historian of medieval Scottish law. His 1890 Trial by Combat remains a substantial study of judicial battle in Britain.
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George Pryme is represented in the reviewed catalogue records as author of “Autobiographic Recollections” (1870). No additional biographical identity or secure life dates are asserted beyond these linked manifestations.
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George Ticknor is represented in the reviewed catalogue records as author of “History of Spanish Literature” (1888). No additional biographical identity or secure life dates are asserted beyond these linked manifestations.
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