Garfield County News | 1944-07-20 | Page 6 | Two Frenchmen Fought Duel in Air Back in 1808 |

Type	issue
Date	1944-07-20
Paper	Garfield County News
Language	eng
City	Panguitch
County	Garfield
Rights	No Copyright - United States (NoC-US)
Publisher	Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
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Article Title	Two Frenchmen Fought Duel in Air Back in 1808
Type	article
Date	1944-07-20
Paper	Garfield County News
Language	eng
City	Panguitch
County	Garfield
Page	6
OCR Text	Show t Two Frenchmen Fought Duel in Air Back in 1808 In 1808 two Frenchmen decided to fight a duel in the air Each 1 ascended in a balloon and at a convenient height the fight began be be- gan each man taking pot shots at his opponents opponent's balloon with a r musket The shooting was wild but at last one man succeeded in fn scoring scoring K Ka a direct hit The gas leaked out t t through the puncture and his oppa 1 nent fell several hundred feet 1 it tc J f his death The victors victor's balloon landed some miles away and out i r stepped the first air ace 4 1
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