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1809 duel in England / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Canning–Castlereagh duel took place on 21 September 1809 on Putney Heath outside London between the politicians George Canning and Lord Castlereagh who had recently been cabinet colleagues. On discovering that Canning had secretly been pushing to have him dismissed from his post as War Secretary Castlereagh resigned and challenged him to a duel. Both men fired two pistol shots and Canning was wounded in the thigh. Although he soon recovered the duel was taken to spell the disgrace of both men, ending their political careers. Nonetheless both subsequently went on to serve as Foreign Secretary and Canning was briefly Prime Minister in 1827.
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