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One of the best slugslingers on the tournament circuit, John Bull prefers a direct approach, especially if it involves bashing. If you’re in his way, he’ll bulldoze right through you, both inside the dueling ring and out.

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  • One of the best slugslingers on the tournament circuit, John Bull prefers a direct approach, especially if it involves bashing. If you’re in his way, he’ll bulldoze right through you, both inside the dueling ring and out.
  • John Bull originated in the creation of Dr John Arbuthnot in 1712, and was popularised first by British print makers. Arbuthnot created Bull in his pamphlet Law is a Bottomless Pit (1712)." Originally derided, other British writers made Bull "a heroic archetype of the freeborn Englishman." Later, the figure of Bull was disseminated overseas by illustrators and cartoonists. Later stories by Arbuthnot also told of John's skittish former wife and his remarriage to a more sensible one - this being an analogy for changing parliaments.
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  • Law is a Bottomless Pit
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  • Dr. John Arbuthnot
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  • John Bull originated in the creation of Dr John Arbuthnot in 1712, and was popularised first by British print makers. Arbuthnot created Bull in his pamphlet Law is a Bottomless Pit (1712)." Originally derided, other British writers made Bull "a heroic archetype of the freeborn Englishman." Later, the figure of Bull was disseminated overseas by illustrators and cartoonists. Starting in the 1760s, Bull was portrayed as an Anglo-Saxon country dweller. He was almost always depicted in a buff-coloured waistcoat and a simple frock coat (in the past Navy blue, but more recently with the Union Jack colours). Britannia, or a lion, is sometimes used as an alternative in some editorial cartoons. As a literary figure, John Bull is well-intentioned, frustrated, full of common sense, and entirely of native country stock. Unlike the later Uncle Sam, he is not a figure of authority but rather a yeoman who prefers his small beer and domestic peace, possessed of neither patriarchal power nor heroic defiance. Arbuthnot provided him with a sister named Peg (Scotland), and a traditional adversary in Louis Baboon (the House of Bourbon in France). Peg continued in pictorial art beyond the 18th century, but the other figures associated with the original tableau dropped away. Later stories by Arbuthnot also told of John's skittish former wife and his remarriage to a more sensible one - this being an analogy for changing parliaments.
  • One of the best slugslingers on the tournament circuit, John Bull prefers a direct approach, especially if it involves bashing. If you’re in his way, he’ll bulldoze right through you, both inside the dueling ring and out.
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