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Austrian military compiler identified only by the surname Jaitner in the surviving catalogue evidence. The 1862 Vienna third edition combines infantry drill, manoeuvring, gymnastics and bayonet-fencing instruction; a full personal identity remains unproved.
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English historian, biographer, essayist and novelist. His 1889 historical novel The Two Chiefs of Dunboy contains the duel episode for which it entered the fencing bibliography.
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Scottish-born British political writer and educationalist. His three-volume Political Disquisitions (1774–1775) argued for political reform and included discussion of duelling.
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American artillery officer, municipal official, Whig congressman and New York state senator, and a nephew of President James Monroe. After graduating from West Point and serving as Winfield Scott’s aide, Colonel James Monroe wrote on infantry drill and bayonet fencing.
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James Orchard Halliwell is represented in the reviewed catalogue records as author of “Reliquiæ Antiquæ” (1845). No additional biographical identity or secure life dates are asserted beyond these linked manifestations.
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James P. Gilchrist is represented in the reviewed catalogue records as author of “A Brief Display of the Origin and History of Ordeals, Trials by Battle, Courts of Chivalry or Honour” (1821). No additional biographical identity or secure life dates are asserted beyond these linked manifestations.
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British mariner, traveller, journalist, author, reform campaigner and member of Parliament. James Silk Buckingham advocated press freedom and social reform and argued for legislative action against duelling.
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Dublin Custom House official and author of the revised and enlarged 1787 manual The Art of Fencing, or the Use of the Small Sword. No secure life dates are presently known.
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German educator, physician and pioneer of curative education who edited widely illustrated books on games, physical education and sport.
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Jaume Pons is represented in the reviewed catalogue records as author of “Treatise on the Art of the Sword (reported early edition)” (Perpiñan). No additional biographical identity or secure life dates are asserted beyond these linked manifestations.
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French magistrate, politician and author Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, best known for Physiologie du goût. His legal and historical writings also included the 1819 Essai historique et critique sur le duel.
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Jean Cuvelier is represented in the reviewed catalogue records as author of “Chronique de Bertrand Du Guesclin” (1839). No additional biographical identity or secure life dates are asserted beyond these linked manifestations.
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