Lake Merced - Famous Duel

Famous Duel

On September 13, 1859, Chief Justice of the California Supreme Court David S. Terry killed United States Senator David C. Broderick in a duel at the lake.

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Famous quotes containing the words famous and/or duel:

    “Our thoughts are always elsewhere; we are stayed and supported by the hope for a better life, or by the hope that our children will turn out well, or that our name will be famous in the future, or that we shall escape the evils of this life, or that vengeance threatens those who are the cause of our death.”
    —Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)

    “She is very clever.
    She is old, old, old, she must live another year, and she knows it.
    While in their fingerjoint cells the new virgins

    Dream of a duel they will win inevitably,”
    —Sylvia Plath (1932–1963)