John Lyde Wilson: 3 books
by John Lyde Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2014
The Code of Honor John Lyde Wilson, the 49th Governor of South Carolina from 1822 to 1824 and an ardent supporter of dueling (1784-1849)
This ebook presents «The Code of Honor», from John Lyde Wilson. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected....
by John Lyde Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
There is a fine and beautiful alliance between all pastimes pursued on flood, field, and fell. The principles in human nature on which they depend, are in all the same; but those principles are subject to infinite modifications and varieties, according to the difference of individual and national character....
Duelling: The Code of Honor
Or, Rules for the Government of Principals and Seconds in Duelling
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
Originally this was published by the author (1784-1849), a former governor of South Carolina, as a 22-page booklet, in 1838. Before his death he added an appendix of the 1777 Irish duelling code, but this second edition was not printed until 1858, as a 46-page small book, still sized to fit in the case...