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What were the rules of the Code Duello in Founding Brothers the Revolutionary Generation?

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Code Duello is a set of rules that required Hamilton and Burr to shoot with a distance of ten feet between them. The code guaranteed the presence of witnesses, the exhaustion of all efforts to come to a peaceful agreement, and on site medical care.

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The Founding Brothers