Duels Collection

German Student Duel / 1880
A German students duel at Gottingen. The Mensur, as practised by German fraternities, is a fast yet rarely-lethal affair with cuts accepted as marks of honour

Customs / Duels 1815
A duel with pistols : preparing to fire

Duel - Saint-Beuve
Duel with pistols between Saint-Beuve and Dubois of The Globe - the former insisted on retaining his umbrella, prepared to die but not catch a cold!

Zola-Inspired Duel
During the Dreyfus Affair in France, colonel Henry and M Picquart cross swords in regard to Zolas intervention, Date: March 1898

Duel with Pistols
A duel with pistols, at surprisingly close quarters - no wonder one of the protagonists has succeeded in hitting his opponent ! Date: circa 1820

DUEL / SERIOUS OUTCOME
A serious outcome Date: circa 1887

Theatre - Play - The Assassin - Duel scene between Prince Demetri and Countess Wanda Date: 1904

Spanish Ladies Fight
Two senoritas settle their differences with swords on the outskirts of Madrid

Women Duelling 19C
Women duelling with swords

Duel of Mistresses
In hot-blooded Austria, fraulein Manna (19) and fraulein Reiter (21, rival mistresses of an army captain, shoot it out - leaving him with only one bedfellow

Duels in the air - WWI aerial combat
Impression of British and German fighter aircraft duelling in the skies during the First World War. Date: 1932

Duel / Boulanger, 1888
Duel with swords between Boulanger and Floquet Date: 1888

WW1 - French monoplane armoured and armed with machine gun
WW1 - The pilot is seen here clear above the armoured body of the plane, where the gunner stands behind a shield on which the machine-gun can pivot

Different approaches to personal slights
" You Engleeshe you do not fight ze duel. Vat d you do ven you air insult?" " Oh, we write to the newspaper." Date: 1895

German Student Duel 1933
German students defy the ban on duelling. Date: 1933

After Students Duel 3
Medical inspection after a Mensur (fencing bout) - the duellist hopes he will be scarred for life Date: circa 1905

Mohun and Hamilton duelling with swords
Lord Mohun and the Duke of Hamilton duel with swords Date: 1711

Ancient German Duel
One-to-one combats are a way for ancient Germans to settle disputes and at the same time prove their prowess

End of a Duel
Honneur est satisfait

Viking Single Combat
Two Viking warriors settle their differences in single combat

Workmens Duel
Two American ironworkers, longtime enemies, fight with red-hot bars : their mates separate them, but not before each has received terrible burns Date: 1907

Cassagnac (Gill)
PAUL DE CASSAGNAC Aggressive French journalist and politician, noted for his fondness for fighting duels

French Duellist
A confident French duellist, from the period of the Directoire

Sword Fight / 17th Century
Two English gentlemen settle their differences

Wellington Vs Wichelsea
The Duke of Wellington & Lord Winchelsea fight a duel over their differing opinions on the Catholic Emancipation Bill

Duel with Whips
Two Parisian cab-drivers fight for love of a laundress, using whips, the tools of their trade : but after the fight she says she wouldn t marry a man who uses a whip so well !

STUDENTS DUEL 1890S
Two students fight a Mensur (fencing bout) - their eyes and bodies are protected but they hope for scars of honour on their cheeks

STUDENTS DUEL C1905
The Mensur (fencing bout) - both duellists hope they will be scarred for life

After Students Duel 1
Red-capped Heidelberg students with their colleague who has just fought a Mensur (fencing bout) while a doctor attends to his wounds of honour

Duel as Spectacle
The duel as media spectacle - recorded by the photographer and the artist, and spectators come hurrying up

Botocudo Ritual Combat
Ritual combats of macho males of the BOTOCUDO people of Brazil - some bash each other with staffs, others wrestle on the ground

Duel Russian Generals
The Russian generals, Smirnoff and Fock, fight it out in a duel

Duel / Clemenceau
DEROULEDE v CLEMENCEAU Poltical opponents Paul Deroulede and Georges Clemenceau fight with pistols, both survive the encounter

Duel / Warren Hastngs
HASTINGS v FRANCIS Warren Hastings wounds his opponent Philip Francis, in India

Loss of a Hat
- Great heavens, hes shot his hat off !

Honour Satisfied
- Halt, gentlemen ! Honour is satisfied !

Fashionable Duel
Todays fashionable duels are fought in a public location, wth all the benefits of hygiene and progress

Duel / Constant
Duel with pistols between Benjamin Constant and Forbin des Issarts - firing from chairs

DUEL / JARNAC, 1547
Duel between the Baron de Jarnac and La Chateigneraie at Saint-Germain, Paris

Men duelling with swords

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