Sandbar Fight

GPTKB entity

Statements (29)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:historical_event
gptkbp:date September 19, 1827
gptkbp:describedBy contemporary newspaper accounts
gptkbp:historicalName gptkb:Antebellum_South
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Sandbar Fight
gptkbp:legacy inspired legends about Jim Bowie
gptkbp:location gptkb:Mississippi_River
near Natchez, Mississippi
gptkbp:notableParticipant gptkb:Alexander_Crain
gptkb:Alfred_Blanchard
gptkb:Carey_Blanchard
gptkb:Dr._Thomas_Maddox
gptkb:General_Samuel_Cuny
gptkb:Major_Norris_Wright
gptkb:Samuel_Levi_Wells_III
gptkb:Robert_Crain
gptkb:Jim_Bowie
Davy Crockett (not present, but later associated in lore)
gptkbp:relatedTo gptkb:sword
gptkb:Jim_Bowie
dueling in the American South
gptkbp:result Jim Bowie seriously wounded
Major Norris Wright killed
several others wounded
gptkbp:significance popularized the Bowie knife
gptkbp:type duel turned brawl
gptkbp:witnessedBy several onlookers and seconds
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:sword
gptkbp:bfsLayer 4