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Continental Army officer Lachlan McIntosh fatally wounds Button Gwinnett, a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence, in a duel in Savannah, Georgia.
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Colonial army during the American Revolutionary War
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Lachlan McIntosh
American general (1725–1806)
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Button Gwinnett
American Founding Father and politician
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1776 American national founding document
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Gwinnett–McIntosh duel
1777 duel between Button Gwinnett and Lachlan McIntosh
The Gwinnett–McIntosh duel was a pistol duel between Button Gwinnett, a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence and former governor of Georgia, and Lachlan McIntosh, a brigadier general in the Continental Army, that took place on May 16, 1777, in Savannah,…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Savannah, Georgia
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