The Marmaduke–Walker duel was fought between John S. Marmaduke
(pictured) and Lucius M. Walker, two generals in the Confederate States
Army, on September 6, 1863, near Little Rock, Arkansas. Tensions had
risen between the two officers during the Battle of Helena on July 4,
1863, when Marmaduke accused Walker of not supporting his force, then
retaliated by not informing Walker of a Confederate retreat. Marmaduke
was later assigned to serve under Walker during a Union advance against
Little Rock. Walker did not support Marmaduke during a retreat after the
Battle of Brownsville. After the Battle of Bayou Meto on August 27,
Marmaduke questioned Walker's courage. A series of notes passed between
the two generals by friends resulted in a duel, during which Walker
received a fatal wound. Marmaduke was arrested, but later released; he
survived the war and later became Governor of Missouri. Union forces
captured Little Rock later in the campaign, after the Battle of Bayou
Fourche.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marmaduke%E2%80%93Walker_duel>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1634:
A Swedish–German army was overwhelmingly defeated at the
Battle of Nördlingen, one of the most important battles of the Thirty
Years' War, effectively destroying Swedish power in southern Germany.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_N%C3%B6rdlingen_%281634%29>
1870:
Louisa Swain became the first woman to vote in a general
election in the United States.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisa_Swain>
1955:
State-sponsored attacks against Istanbul's Greek minority,
known as the Istanbul pogrom, killed between 13 and 37 people and
injured more than a thousand others.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Istanbul_pogrom>
2003:
Mahmoud Abbas resigned as Prime Minister of the Palestinian
National Authority after a power struggle with President Yasser Arafat.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahmoud_Abbas>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
at odds:
(idiomatic) In disagreement; conflicting.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/at_odds>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Man is not the source of all things, as the subjective idealists
would say. Nor is he the passive observer of all things, as the
objective idealists and materialists would say. The Quality which
creates the world emerges as a relationship between man and his
experience. He is a participant in the creation of all things. The
measure of all things...
--Robert M. Pirsig
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Robert_M._Pirsig>
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