How Did D Artagnan Lose The Dual?

The film begins with the three musketeers Athos, Porthos, and Aramis along with the ‘help’ of Milady de Winter stealing airship blueprints made by Leonardo da Vinci. After the blueprints are stolen, Milady betrays the musketeers and sells the blueprints to the highest bidder, Duke of Buckingham. Fast forward to a year, D’Artagnan is seen leaving his small village to leave for Paris in hopes of becoming a musketeer like his father was, only to find out that the Musketeers have disbanded. While stopping on his journey, he challenges Captain Rochefort, the leader of Cardinal Richelieu’s guard, to a dual. D’Artagnan loses the dual. Once in Paris, D’Artagnan meets the disgraced musketeers, Athos, Porthos, and Aramis on three separate encounters and manages to offend each one. Once again, D’Artagnan challenges a dual. Athos brings both Porthos and Aramis to the duel as his seconds, which cause D’Artagnan to realize their true identities. Shortly before the dual begins, Richelieu’s guard arrives to apprehend them but both the Musketeers and D’Artagnan decide to fight together and become victorious. All four of them are summoned before the young King Louis XIII and Queen Anne. Richelieu urges the young king to execute them, but Queen Anne is impressed by their bravery and

Milady informs Buckingham that the Musketeers have arrived to take revenge on him. D’Artagnan is captured, which turns out to be a decoy, to allow the other musketeers to steal Buckingham’s airship and rescue him. While Milady’s getaway coachmen revealed himself to be the musketeer’s secret weapon to capture her and deliver her to his masters so that they can retrieve Queen Anne’s necklace from her. Athos prepares to execute Milady for her treachery, but hesitates as she was once his great love, she leaps off the airship to die on her own terms and the spare him the grieve for executing