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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 ...
Alexandra Hamilton Woods (top) and Antonio Burr have become friends -- despite their ancestors' famous duel (left). Getty Images (left, bottom right) On July, 11, 1804, fierce political rivals ...
Aaron Burr, who was serving as President Thomas Jefferson's vice president, mortally wounded Alexander Hamilton, the first secretary of the Treasury, in a pistol duel on this day in history ...
Illustration depicting the duel between Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton. (photo credit: Wikimedia Commons) June 11, 2022 marks 218 years since the duel between US vice president Aaron Burr and ...
It was 215 years ago that longtime rivals Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton met for the final time in Weehawken, New Jersey for a duel that would go in the history books, and eventually make its ...
Yesterday we were permitted to handle the identical pistols used by AARON BURR and ALEXANDER HAMILTON in their famous duel at Weehawken. The pistols are now the property of HARRY ARM. STRONG ...