Marquis de Mores

Marquis De Mores

Marquis de Morès (June 14, 1858 – June 9, 1896) was a famous duelist, frontier ranchman in the Badlands of Dakota Territory during the final years of the American Old West era, a railroad pioneer in Vietnam, and an anti-Semitic politician in his native France.

Read more about Marquis De Mores:  Early Life, The Badlands, Gulf of Tonkin, France, Algeria, Assassination

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