Twitter: https://twitter.com/Tenminhistory Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=4973164 Merch: https://teespring.com/stores/history-matters-store-2 Special Thanks to the following Patrons for their support on Patreon: Alen Richard Wolfe Chris Fatta Kevin Sanders Daniel Lambert Stefan Møller sharpie660 D. Mahlik anon Warren Rudkin Mitchell Wildoer Andrew Niedbala John Garcia Ariadni Voulgari Bernardo Santos Blaine Tillack Danny Anstess Perry Gagne Joooooshhhhh Sam Shaun Pullin Henry Rabung Magdalena Reinberg-Leibel Vesko Dinev Adam Barrett I’m Not In The Description Troy Schmidt hamid kadiwala FuzzytheFair Mark Ploegstra Jeffrey Schneider Byzans_Scotorius Haydn Noble Spencer Smith Josh Cornelius Gideon Rashkes Cornel Borină Colin Steele João Santos Richard Manklow Chance Cansler Gabriel Lunde Donald Weaver Pierre Le Mouel Seth Reeves Konstantin Bredyuk Why did people stop duelling? Because shooting people for being rude to you became to be seen as impolite. Sources: The Code of Honour and Its Critics: The Opposition to Duelling in England, 1700-1850 by Donna T. Andrew Courts of Honour in the Late Imperial Russian Army by Paul Robinson The Double Guilt of Dueling: The Stain of Suicide in Anti-Dueling Rhetoric in the Early Republic by Richard Bell