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 vs. Aaron Burr. The two men despised each other. The last two times in these pages, I outlined the grinding, seething, and acrimonious disgust that the two political parties ...

On July 11, 1804, U.S. Vice President Aaron Burr killed longtime political foe Alexander Hamilton, the first treasury secretary, in a duel at Weehawken, N.J.

Examines the rivalry between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr, whose infamous duel left the Founding Father dead and turned a sitting vice-president into a fugitive. Date 2015 1801-1809 Type Books ...

On it were portraits of his ancestor Aaron Burr, the third vice president of the United States, and Alexander Hamilton, the first secretary of the treasury, whom Vice President Burr killed in a ...

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 way..

But the town of Weehawken, N.J., remembers an infamous duel with a reenactment, 200 years after former vice president Aaron Burr shot Alexander Hamilton dead. NPR's Nancy Solomon reports.

Antonio Burr, a descendant of Burr's cousin, arrived by rowboat in period costume and fired a replica of the .54-caliber pistol that mortally wounded Hamilton 200 years ago in the July 11, 1804 duel.

Aaron Burr, infamous for shooting Alexander Hamilton in a duel, went on to be charged with treason for a conspiracy in the Ohio River Valley.

Object Details author Sedgwick, John 1954- Subject Hamilton, Alexander 1757-1804 Burr, Aaron 1756-1836 Contents Part I. The roots of hatred -- In the hands of an angry God -- Contentment -- Platonic ...