Duke Hamilton is dead!
Dueling
Great britain, politics and government, 1603-1714
Nobility, great britain
Great britain, history, stuarts, 1603-1714
Aristocracy (Social class)
Great britain, social life and customs
Death and burial
Great britain, social conditions
Inheritance and succession
Nobility
Social life and customs
Politics and government
Biography
History
On the morning of November 15, 1712, two of Britain's most important peers, the fourth Baron Mohun and the fourth Duke of Hamilton, met in Hyde Park. In a flurry of brutal swordplay that lasted perhaps two minutes, both fell mortally wounded. For months afterward, the kingdom was in an uproar, for t…
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