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Jan 26, 2002 · The Duel Between Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton. [June 18–October 23, 1804] Introductory Note. The document printed below contains the first mention in this volume of the events relating to the duel between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr. Each aspect of the encounter, undoubtedly the most famous duel in American history, intrigued ...
On July 11, 1804, Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr met on the dueling grounds at Weehawken, New Jersey, to fight the final skirmish of a long-lived political and personal battle. When the duel ...
Alexander Hamilton© iStock/Getty Images. Hamilton’s 19-year-old son Philip was killed in a duel near present-day Jersey City in November 1801 that had resulted from Philip’s conflict with George Eacker, a Democratic-Republican who maligned Philip’s father in a speech. Hamilton père’s strong sense of personal honor had led him to issue ...
Harrison Otis’s Eulogy on Alexander Hamilton In Boston, Harrison Otis was asked to deliver a eulogy for Hamilton. His speech summarized Hamilton’s career and touched upon the grief of the nation: “The universal sorrow manifested in every part of the Union upon the melancholy exit of this great man, is an unequivocal testimonial of the public opinion of his worth.
The original dueling pistols used by Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr in the 1804 duel that killed Hamilton were on exhibit from May 25 – September 16, 2018. This rare public showing marked the first time these pistols have been displayed in Washington, D.C. The Burr and Hamilton Duel at Weehawken, New Jersey, July 11, 1804. In this popular ...
Jan 12, 2018 · The duel that Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr fought on July 11, 1804, is American history’s most studied shootout. At Weehawken Flats, an isolated ledge on the New Jersey bank of the Hudson River across from what is now the west end of 42nd Street, the sitting vice president of the United States shot and killed a pillar of the Federalist Party who had been President George Washington’s right-hand man and the nation’s first secretary of the treasury, a fatal moment Henry Adams ...
Alexander Hamilton is born on January 11 in Nevis, British West Indies, at the epicenter of the sugar and slave trade. The date of Hamilton's birth, which some historians give as 1755, is still in ...
