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account of the battle between Neat & Hickman
for three hundred guineas aside, which took place on Tuesday December 11, 1821, on Hungerford Common, in Hampshire
Account of the battle between Neat and Hickman
Purchased for the Cushing Lib./Sports/Mitchell Boxing by The Cushing Library.
A crowd of 22,000 gathered on Hungerford Common on December 11, 1821 to witness one of the great fight events of the era as Bill 'The Bristol Bull' Neat met Tom Hickman, known as the 'Gaslight Man'. Presented is a round-by-round account of the seventeen-round battle, beginning with a description of an early 19th century version of "smack talk".