Anson Burlingame denounced Preston Brooks for beating Senator Charles Sumner unconscious with a cane and Brooks challenged him to a duel. Under the dueling code, the challenged person chooses weapons and location and Burlingame, a crack shot, chose rifles on the Canadian side of the NY border at Niagara Falls.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anson_Burlingame#Burlingame_vs._Preston_Brooks
Brooks backed down. But what if he hadn't? If courage isn't enough, pride would do.
1. What if Burlingame killed Brooks? If he was a crack shot as the Wiki said, that seems the more likely outcome.
2. What if Brooks killed Burlingame? Pride comes before the fall, after all.
3. Other outcomes--mutual kill, mutual wounding, or both miss?
This one could be up there with Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anson_Burlingame#Burlingame_vs._Preston_Brooks
Brooks backed down. But what if he hadn't? If courage isn't enough, pride would do.
1. What if Burlingame killed Brooks? If he was a crack shot as the Wiki said, that seems the more likely outcome.
2. What if Brooks killed Burlingame? Pride comes before the fall, after all.
3. Other outcomes--mutual kill, mutual wounding, or both miss?
This one could be up there with Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr.