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Pugilistica

by Henry Downes Miles

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Author
Miles, Henry Downes, 1806-1889
Title
Pugilistica: The History of British Boxing, Volume 3 (of 3) Containing Lives of the Most Celebrated Pugilists; Full Reports of Their Battles from Contemporary Newspapers, With Authentic Portraits, Personal Anecdotes, and Sketches of the Principal Patrons of the Prize Ring, Forming a Complete History of the Ring from Fig and Broughton, 1719-40, to the Last Championship Battle Between King and Heenan, in December 1863
Credits
Carol Brown, deaurider and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
Language
English
LoC Class
GV: Geography, Anthropology, Recreation: Recreation, Leisure
Subject
Boxing
Category
Text
Project Gutenberg
eBook-No. 64111
Release Date
December 22, 2020
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.Untitled
  2. 2.PUGILISTICA
  3. 3.Untitled
  4. 4.BY HENRY DOWNES MILES
  5. 5.Untitled
  6. 6.PREFACE TO VOL. III.
  7. 7.Untitled
  8. 8.PUGILISTICA: THE HISTORY OF BRITISH BOXING. — PERIOD VII. — CHAPTER I. — WILLIAM THOMPSON (“BENDIGO”), OF NOTTINGHAM, CHAMPION. 1835–1850.
  9. 9.CHAPTER II. — BENJAMIN CAUNT (CHAMPION). 1835–1857. [11]
  10. 10.CHAPTER III. — JAMES BURKE (KNOWN AS “THE DEAF’UN”). 1828–1843.
  11. 11.CHAPTER IV. — WILLIAM PERRY (“THE TIPTON SLASHER”) 1835–1857.
  12. 12.CHAPTER V. — NICHOLAS (NICK) WARD. 1835–1841.
  13. 13.CHAPTER VI. — NATHANIEL LANGHAM. 1843–1857.
  14. 14.CHAPTER VII. — HARRY ORME. 1849–1853.
  15. 15.CHAPTER VIII. — TOM PADDOCK. 1844–1860.
  16. 16.CHAPTER IX. — HARRY BROOME (CHAMPION). 1843–1856.
  17. 17.APPENDIX TO PERIOD VII.
  18. 18.I. —​ BRASSEY (JOHN LEECHMAN), of Bradford, and YOUNG LANGAN, of Liverpool, for £100.
  19. 19.II. —​ TASS (HAZARD) PARKER, of West Bromwich, and JOHN LEECHMAN (BRASSEY), of Bradford, for £100.
  20. 20.III. —​ TASS PARKER, of West Bromwich, and HARRY PRESTON, of Birmingham, for £100.
  21. 21.IV. —​AARON JONES AND BOB WADE (THE DOVER CHAMPION).
  22. 22.PERIOD VIII. —1846–1863.
  23. 23.CHAPTER I. — TOM SAYERS (CHAMPION).—​1849–1860.
  24. 24.CHAPTER II. — JEM MACE, OF NORWICH (CHAMPION). 1855–1864.
  25. 25.CHAPTER III. — TOM KING (CHAMPION). 1860–1862.
  26. 26.L’Envoy to the Reader.
  27. 27.INDEX TO VOLUME III. — Transcriber Notes

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