from my sketchbook: another warrior

I found another drawing that could possibly fit the weekly challenge "warrior".

This is from my sketchbook from last year. It's Bill "The Butcher" Poole, the actual guy that Daniel Day-Lewis' character was based on in "Gangs of New York", a movie I never saw. I did however do the layout for a textbook about the history of New York and the story of Tammany Hall, Boss Tweed and the early politics of New York stuck with me.

Bill Poole was a bare-knuckle boxer, a member of the Bowery Boys gang in New York, and the leader of the Know-Nothings political party. Poole's archenemy, John Morrissey, was an Irish immigrant and enforcer for Tammany Hall. Morrissey was also a popular boxer and challenged Poole to a match. Though the two men were of differing ethnic backgrounds and political parties, the initial grounds for their dispute may have arisen from an earlier bet by Poole on a boxing match. Poole placed his bet on Morrissey's opponent, "Yankee Sullivan". The fight took place at Four Corners on October 12th, 1853. Results of the boxing match were disputed, and Poole was against Morrissey being paid. Poole and Morrissey squared off in the ring to settle their dispute on July 26, 1854, at Amos Dock, New York.
According to historian Mark Caldwell, during the fight Poole "bit and gouged, but won only when his friends joined the fight and kicked Morrissey unconscious."
Morrissey plotted revenge and on February 25, 1855, Lew Baker, a friend of Morrisey, shot Poole at a bar on Broadway.

History class is over.