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Pugilistica: The History of British Boxing, Volume 2 (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, 1719-1740, to the Last Championship Battle Between King and Heenan, in December 1863
Miles, Henry Downes · Public domain text
334,408 words · about 23 h 25 min to read
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The text of Pugilistica: The History of British Boxing, Volume 2 (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, 1719-1740, to the Last Championship Battle Between King and Heenan, in December 1863 comes from Project Gutenberg e-text #61649. It is public domain in the United States. Project Gutenberg’s header and license text are removed, and RedLectern sets the text out for reading on screen; no words of the book are rewritten or summarized. More formats (EPUB, Kindle) · How RedLectern is built
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About this book
- Author
- Henry Downes Miles (1806–1889)
- Language
- English
- Subjects
- Boxing
- Length
- 334,408 words · about 23 h 25 min
- Sections
- 5 reader sections · Table of contents
- Source
- Project Gutenberg #61649
Contents (5)
- Opening about 4 h 55 min
- VI. THOMAS HICKMAN (“THE GAS MAN”) about 45 min
- VII. DAN DONNELLY, CHAMPION OF IRELAND (part 1 of 3) about 6 h 54 min
- VII. DAN DONNELLY, CHAMPION OF IRELAND (part 2 of 3) about 6 h 55 min
- VII. DAN DONNELLY, CHAMPION OF IRELAND (part 3 of 3) about 3 h 57 min
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