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, July 11, ...
After killing Alexander Hamilton in a duel, Aaron Burr might have hid in New Hope, where his ghost has been seen.
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 was ...
On this day, April 1, in 1800, the original legal Dream Team, Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr, won an acquittal in the infamous Manhattan Well Murder Mystery. Before the men fired shots in America’s ...
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 ...
Alexander Hamilton — aide to Gen. George Washington during the Revolutionary War, an author of the Federalist Papers, the nation’s first Secretary of the Treasury and the guy on the $10 bill — was ...
Scott Bessent jokingly invoked the fatal duel between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr when asked about his recent dustup with Bill Pulte – whom the Treasury secretary reportedly threatened to “punch ...
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, 1804, ...
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 ...