British <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretary_of_State_for_War_and_the_Colonies" id="mwQg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Secretary of State for War and the Colonies">Secretary of War</a> <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Castlereagh" id="mwQw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Lord Castlereagh">Lord Castlereagh</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Secretary" id="mwRA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Foreign Secretary">Foreign Secretary</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Canning" id="mwRQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="George Canning">George Canning</a> meet in a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castlereagh-Canning_duel" id="mwRg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Castlereagh-Canning duel">duel</a> on <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Putney_Heath" id="mwRw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Putney Heath">Putney Heath</a>, with Castlereagh wounding Canning in the thigh.<sup about="#mwt20" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-2"}}' id="cite_ref-2" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./September_21#cite_note-2" id="mwSA" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 2;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwSQ">[2]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-2">Hunt, Giles. <i id="mwB7k">The Duel: Castlereagh, Canning and Deadly Cabinet Rivalry</i>. Bloomsbury Academic, 2008. p.137</span>