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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.