Historic Duels that put the Wild West to Shame

petty disputes are like taxes they hit you when you least expect it and usually lead to some sort of criminal threat unlike today where death threats can be made from the safety of your couch the people of the past didn't have the luxury of the internet to keep their murderous desires at bay instead they resorted to a good old-fashioned duel to settle their differences this glorious practice sent a strong message that no matter how big or small any problem can be solved honorably with a little elbow grease and murder but while dueling is no longer available today don't you worry champ we have our alternatives hey so actually i said i didn't want any pickles ratio wha what's that gonna do l but for some a traditional duel can only bring so much excitement you know how getting stabbed and shot at gets dull after a while so today we're gonna explore the stories of those who participated in some of the wackier duels in history [Music] it's well known that the french's two greatest contributions to the world are drinking wine with your pinky out and cartoony murder stories such as the hot-headed man who headed the headhunt after beheading the head of state while headless is spearheading his headless demise but reigns a terror aside the french are legendary for their use of duels to settle their disagreements everything from political differences to whose mustache best represents a kick-ass roller coaster so a mucio de grompre and sierra depict found out they had both been seeing the same woman a duel was short to follow the year is 1808 and the renowned dancer at the paris opera moselle tervit was dating romprey but began to seal the peak on the side for a little extra baguette both men laid claim to the woman because it's the 1800s and before beyonce could still do that kind of thing agreeing to a duel to win her heart but given the grand nature of the prize so too must the duel itself be elevated literally oh if it is the woman you want miss your day beak a duel you must have made a third the crack of dawn we duel you're on mission oh putin i have a balloon race that day we will make it work it was decided that the only way to settle the dispute was with the duel and gas balloons why must the men fight to the death thousands of feet above paris no clue maybe they thought the fire nation had the right idea but if anything we can thank the french for pioneering the steampunk genre the idea was to take a month to build identical gas balloons ascend into the air and take turns firing at each other's balloons with a blunderbuss a predecessor to the modern shotgun on may 3rd 1808 as crowds gathered for what they thought was a balloon race both men ascended in their balloons with their seconds who were to act as co-pilots traditionally the role of a second is to mediate the duel as well as attempt to defuse the situation entirely to avoid bloodshed in this case on top of their usual duties the seconds were literally prepared to die if their guy lost that or maybe they misinterpreted the term wingman say what you will about the french but they always got their homies backs from prey look around it's so peaceful up here can't they make your whole love triangle problems in kind of small huh yeah you know what you're right hey what i think i want to go down you dare call me a clown no i said i want to go down no you're going down [Music] marie marie are you okay well at least my own air is restored dear god there are body parts everywhere at about half a mile up a signal was given and the duel commenced the peak fired first and miraculously missed the giant balloon gramprey followed with his shot which hit its mark sending le peek and the second plummeting to the ground to her then quote dash to pieces on a house top that's the quote a fitting end because anyone with aim that bad is bound to be a nuisance at urinals and thus deserves to die it should be noted that the authenticity of the story is a little questionable the earliest record of the story that i could find was in a british newspaper a few months after the fact it's also mentioned in a book by proclaimed authority on duels i even went as far as to ask a duelist historian about it who said while he doesn't necessarily doubt it to be true he has no reason to be certain it isn't apocryphal so this story gets filed under it may not have happened but the world's more fun believing it did so anyway whether or not grand prairie actually ended up with tyrvi it is unknown but i like to imagine he realized that if he should love anyone is the one willing to put his life on the line so that his bro can get laid so what could possibly follow up balloon tower defense france edition that's right the french again back during the french restoration there existed a lot of tension between the former soldiers of napoleon's army and the bright and shiny royal guard and considering the french tend to be quite honest and direct with their thoughts cruels are rather expected which shouldn't be too surprising it's such a problem that they literally developed a career dedicated to silence one such coral occurred when colonel babie dufay trot on the toes of the young captain raul de ver of the royal guard and insulted his cockade get your mind out of the gutter it's a hair ribbon but apparently in 19th century france mocking a glorified knot was akin to spitting on an orphan because her owl was so insulted that only blood could remedy such a dishonor he challenged dufay to a duel offering up the rapier sword or pistol as the weapon of choice whichever dufay preferred this surprised the colonel who was all like oh so you've mastered all these to which raul responded uh no i'm 18. seeing as how defeat wasn't a fan of fortnite he wasn't all that interested in murdering children that day but as he began to walk away raul placed his hand on the colonel's cheek which sounds really touching at first until he realized that's just fancy olden talk for giving him the old airplane treatment and thus a duel with rapiers commenced they faced off in the street where the more experienced dufe proceeded to easily disarm raul four times okay stop no doubt put it down boy this is pathetic i'm not an assassin you have not bested me yet good sir okay fine you hellbent on a fight to the death you insulted my crooked jesus christ okay uh let's make things interesting apparently four consecutive disarms wasn't enough to solidify a victor so defe proposed that they should and i'm not making this up tie their left arms together enter the back of a coach and stab each other to death with daggers because you know what they say if you can't win with a sword four times try fast and furious with knives this was thought to be the perfect solution as it would ensure no one could escape so the second stick over for the carriage driver and begin driving their pre-routed two laps around the plastic carousel and if there's anyone i feel the most sorry for it's them wait till you see my spin move i made this move myself rest now so did raul finally catch his break redeeming his honor solely by the insult to his cockade in numerous disarmaments no no the lad was very dead dufay also appeared to be dead at first having been stabbed four times in the chest but he ultimately recovered from his wounds some accounts claim that he later died from his injuries but the majority of the sources i consulted said otherwise plus as we all know it takes 37 stabs in the chest to kill a man so if we learned any valuable lessons from this encounter it's uh moving on from france we have a story that takes place on the other side of the english channel on a cold winter's evening in 1765 the two cousins neighbors and friends lord william byron and william shawworth were enjoying their weekly dinner at the star gardener tavern in london it started off pleasant enough just two blokes enjoying a chin wag having a laugh you know british things but as the wine continued to run so too did their mouths a conversation began on the proper way to hang birds after they were shot which soon transitioned into whose estate held the most game birds but little did they know they were both redditers at heart and what began as some harmless boasting rapidly escalated as neither side would back down you see byron at my estate we roll the wings up like crescent rolls and hang the bird from the claws well you know that makes sense coming from an estate like yours what do you mean by that oh only just that you obviously lack proper experience with an estate so devoid of game birds this coming from the bloke with only 20 pheasants on his estate 29 and please you don't have more than a handful of quail in your brush good sir my estate is brimming with quail along with dozens upon dozens of red-legged partridges you have as many partridges as you admire as you wasik meanwhile i've got 18 kappa kelly roaming my backyard i've got 17 ostriches yes 17 ostriches that run circles around your pathetic kappa kelly 14 pterodactyls my estate has 14 pterodactyls flying leagues above your glorified giraffe chickens alright how did everything turn out tonight oh wonderful say could you show us to a room the argument escalated to the point where they drew their swords and asked the waiter to show them to an empty room the waiter returned after hearing a lot of commotion to find shawworth gravely injured with byron's sword driven firmly through his gut proving once and for all that lord william byron had the most birds or something like that shawworth lived for a full day before he died during which he claimed that he only regretted that the room that they dueled in was so dimly lit and thus caused his defeat basically the equivalent of saying i lost because he had a good gaming chair after his cousin's death william byron was put on trial for murder before the house of lords during which they asked him are you guilty of the felony of murder to which he responded nah fam and so they found him guilty of manslaughter instead while normally you expect people to regret their stupid decisions byron proudly mounted the sword that slew his friend in his bed chamber and later would earn the nickname the wicked lord he ultimately got off with just a small fine showing that as long as the honor of bird lovers is at stake and you happen to be a lord you absolutely can put a price on human life oh hey life lesson leopard what wisdom do you have for us today dwell not on the grievances past for that which festers blooms with thorns and those whose minds dwell to the last shall find their doom this leopard warns okay what you want money you want to keep those wings jesus okay here i could have taken him what was that 10 out of 10 stars [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] you

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Length: 9min 55sec (595 seconds)

Published: Mon Jan 24 2022