HEH: Women Need to Stop Being So Passive-Aggressive and Start Dueling. Actually, in the chapter I wrote on dueling for a forthcoming book on legal issues and the Hamilton musical, I have this footnote: “William Oliver Stevens, Pistols at Ten Paces: The Story of the Code of Honor in America 140 (1940) reports two instances of women dueling, one at a bridge in Buffalo, New York over causes unknown, and one in Georgia in 1817 over ‘the love of a swain.’ One girl was seriously wounded, ‘and the other carried off her beau in triumph to the bonds of matrimony.'”