Burr–Hamilton duel
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The Burr–Hamilton duel took place in Weehawken, New Jersey, between Aaron Burr, the U.S. vice president at the time, and Alexander Hamilton, the first and former Secretary of the Treasury, at dawn on
1902 illustration of duel
Philip Schuyler, Hamilton's father-in-law, a Continental Army general under Washington and later a U.S. Senator, representing New York state
This July 31, 1804 article in the Georgia Republican & State Intelligencer reviewed the extended contentious communications between Burr and Hamilton that culminated in the duel, which the newspaper criticized as a "barbarous custom".
An artistic impression of Burr's shot of Hamilton
Aaron Burr
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Aaron Burr Jr. was an American politician, businessman, and lawyer who served as the third vice president of the United States from 1801 to 1805, during Thomas Jefferson's first presidential term. A m
Portrait, c. 1801
Burr's maternal grandfather Jonathan Edwards, a Congregationalist theologian
The Death of General Montgomery in the Attack on Quebec, December 31, 1775, a 1786 portrait by John Trumbull depicting the Battle of Quebec in 1775
A portrait of Burr and Theodosia Bartow Prevost, who Burr married in 1782, by Henry Benbridge