Dueling in the Old Navy; Reprinted from the United States Naval Institute Proceedings, Vol. 35, No. 4, Whole No. 132.
Annapolis: U.S. Naval Institute, 1909. Reprint of article. Wraps. Pages 1155-197, [1]. Footnotes. Ex-War Department Library, with usual markings. Cover has wear and soiling, spine tears and loss of corner of back cover.. Decorative cover. Part of cover has been reglued at the spine. Inscribed on the first page ' To Mr. Cheney, with the compliments of the author". Charles Oscar Paullin (20 July 1869 – 1 September 1944) was an important naval historian, who made a significant early contribution to the administrative history of the United States Navy. Following completion of his doctorate, he published a series of articles in the U.S. Naval Institute's Proceedings between 1905 and 1914 that constituted the first administrative history of the U.S. Navy. They were published posthumously as a book in 1968, twenty-four years after his death. Similarly, a series of articles on American Voyages to the Orient was published in 1971. From 1910 to his retirement in 1936, Paullin served on the research staff of the Carnegie Institution. In 1911, he gave the Albert Shaw Lectures on Diplomatic History at The Johns Hopkins University, which were published the following year as Diplomatic Negotiations of American Naval Officers. In 1911-1913, Paullin lectured on naval history at the George Washington University. He published his major works on naval history between 1905 and 1918. In 1933, Columbia University awarded Paullin and John Kirtland Wright the Loubat Prize for their Atlas of the Historical Geography of the United States (1932). The following paper consists of two parts: (I) a few general observations upon the subject of naval dueling; and (2) a list of eighty-two naval duels, giving all the important facts respecting them that were obtainable. For many years the officers of our navy recognized the binding force of the duello in the settlement of their personal grievances. In this they were in no way singular, for, a few decades ago, gentlemen of every class, with the exception of ministers, were wont to bring their enemies to account on the field of honor. How respectable was this method of adjudicating differences may be seen from the names of some of the leading American statesmen who fought duels: Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr, John Randolph of Roanoke, Henry Clay, Andrew Jackson, and Thomas H. Benton. Claypoole's Daily Advertiser for June 12, 1800, states that twenty-one duels had been recently fought in the United States within six weeks, resulting in the death of six men and the wounding of eleven. Condition: Good.
Keywords: United States Navy, Dueling, Grievances, Honor, Stephen Decatur, Bladensburg, Midshipmen, Joseph Bainbridge, Oliver Hazard Perry, James Barron, John Rodgers, David Porter
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