Note to players: Two answers required. These two politicians quarreled over whether the Walcheren Expedition should be sent to the Netherlands or Portugal. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name these two politicians. In a duel on Putney Heath, one of these two politicians shot the other in the leg after the latter wildly missed his shot, allegedly because he never fired a pistol before.
ANSWER: George Canning AND Lord Castlereagh [accept Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh in place of “Lord Castlereagh”]
[10m] After that duel, Canning was passed up as Prime Minister in favor of this man. A few months later, this politician would become the first and only British Prime Minister to be assassinated.
ANSWER: Spencer Perceval
[10e] This politician called for a doctor when Castlereagh fell ill, while Canning passed over this politician to become Prime Minister. Earlier, this British general defeated Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo.
ANSWER: Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington [or Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington]
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