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          1798 duel in England

          The Pitt–Tierney Duel took place on 27 May 1798 when the Prime Minister of Great BritainWilliam Pitt the Younger met his political opponent George Tierney in a duel with pistols on Putney Heath outside London.[1] 

          Background

          Pitt had been Prime Minister since 1783 and from 1793 had led the country during the French Revolutionary War.[2] Tierney was a Whig opposition figure associated with Charles James Fox and the radical wing of the opposition Whig Party.

          During a debate in the House of Commons, Pitt had been proposing a new measure to increase the manpower of the Royal Navy. Tierney, in the absence of Fox acting as the resident leader of the Foxite Whigs, suggested a longer consideration of the bill.[3] Pitt frustrated by this move, had suggested Tierney's attitude came from a "desire to obstruct the defence of the country".[4] When Tierney protested and appealed to the Speaker, who aske