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<font size=3>(1) Isn't the "coward" redundant to
"poltroon"? Which latter seems to cover much more
territory, also.<br><br>
(2) Which was the fighting word, "poltroon" or
"scoundrel"? (I'll bet Andy was called a scoundrel later
many times.)<br><br>
Joel<br><br>
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<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">>Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2007
17:59:21 -0600<br>
>From: "Mullins, Bill AMRDEC"
<Bill.Mullins@US.ARMY.MIL><br>
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>Charles Dickinson once called Andrew Jackson a "worthless
scoundrel, ... a poltroon and a coward". Dickinson was a
feared dueller, and Jackson's political opponents put Dickinson up to the
insult, figuring Jackson would challenge Dickinson to a duel, and get
killed.<br>
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>Jackson made the challenge. He stood and took the first shot,
being wounded, and then calmly shot Dickinson, without the pressure of
trying to get off the first shot. Dickinson died, and Jackson
carried the Dickinson's ball in his chest for the rest of his life.<br>
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>No one called him a poltroon, anymore,
though.</font></blockquote></body>
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