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 ...
Three years later, Alexander Hamilton’s children suffered a new loss when Alexander died in a duel with Aaron Burr. Alexander also dueled in Weehawken, and even used the same set of pistols as ...
Not long ago, people knew Aaron Burr only from a funny “Got Milk?” commercial. After Lin-Manuel Miranda’s 2015 musical phenomenon “Hamilton,” everyone knows of the famous duel on July 11 ...
Aaron Burr, true to his dual nature ... (It's hinted at just before the Burr-Hamilton duel, in Burr's line "this man will not make an orphan of my daughter.") Want more about the latest in ...
Aaron Burr, a lawyer and a former Senator ... angry at Hamilton’s intervention that he challenged him to a duel, resulting in Hamilton’s death. In fact, it was not until Hamilton disparaged ...
What fueled the constant public attention on the case was the involvement of Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr, who were defense attorneys competing for publicity. The presence of Hamilton and ...