Alexander Hamilton: A Short Story

In the battle between Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton was one of the most famous duels in the early 19th century. Both men were very significant political leaders of the United States. The men had clashes throughout the 1790’s which lead to a duel between the two and Alexander Hamilton lost his life.

This duel is initiated due to the loss of the election which Alexander Hamilton sides against Burr. During this duel Alexander Hamilton points his gun to the air to show that he does not want to kill Burr but he fires and kills Alexander anyway. After this he talks of how he immediately regrets killing him and how he should have known that they could have coexisted had they put the dispute behind them. He shows true grief and remorse when he says “He(Alexander) may have been the first one to die but I’m the one who paid for it”(275). This paints Burr as not a villain with malicious intent he is just portrayed as impulsive and blinded by his lack of

“Hamilton was assigned to be Captain of the group of artillery that guarded Patriots interests at Long Island and White Plains.“ (wikipedia) Alexander Hamilton’s job as secretary of treasury was that he was in charge of dealing with money and he made sure the country is successful with their banks .

It is believed that Hamilton did shoot at Burr by accident, but missed and hit a tree. Burr was then justified to shoot back at Hamilton by code duello

The chapters are titled "The Generation", "The Duel", "The Dinner", "The Silence", "The Farewell", "The Collaborators" and "The Friendship". In "The Duel", the story of the legendary duel between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr is related in its entirety. It was by far the most prominent deadly standoff between two men in history. Ellis relates the background and brief biographies of the two men involved in the duel. He also reveals the context for the duel, a culmination of political and personal jabs at Burrs character by Hamilton. In fact these jabs held a good deal of truth, and finally resulted in Burr challenging Hamilton. Both Hamilton and Burr went to the plains in Weehawken to conduct the duel in defense of their honor and characters. Historically, Hamilton is seen as a martyr in the duel and Burr seen as a treacherous murderer. This Hamiltonian viewpoint is dominant among historians because it is widely believed that Hamilton went into the duel not intending to fire a shot and that Burr fired the first shot. Ellis believes this version of the story to be wrong. He believes that Hamilton honored his bargain of not firing on Burr, wasting his first shot by firing it into the trees. Burr, thinking that Hamilton fired at him, shot and killed Hamilton with his shot.

In many U.S. history classes all over the country, the Alexander Hamilton Vs. Aaron Burr duel is taught with little detail. Hamilton is a founding father, Burr is the Vice President, they challenge each other to a duel and Hamilton dies. However there is much more to the story as Hamilton consciously made the decision to throw away his shot and give Burr all of the power. This may not be the kind of decision that most people would make in this situation, but for Hamilton it was necessary. Alexander Hamilton had been through a great deal of hardships in his life. In the beginning his childhood was dark and filled with death, he tainted his love life and career with an affair, he gave his son fatal advice, and by speaking what he thought to be true he landed himself a spot in the duel against Burr. Within all of these aspects, Hamilton found himself helpless and no matter what he tried, he could not seem to fix the situation. Perhaps Hamilton decided to lay his fate in the hands of someone else for once because he never truly felt in control.

Chapter One: The Duel was a well-known duel in American history. Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton. July 11, 1804 is the exact date when the duel took place. It was presumed to have taken place in Weehawken, New Jersey; when in actuality, the duel really took place on a ledge above the water near Weehawken. This isolated spot was foolproof for illegal acts like this. Hamilton ends up dying because of Burr. Burr shot him from a distance. The bullet hit a rib and then ricocheted off into his spine mortally wounding Hamilton. Hamilton was the one that chose the position and the weapons for the duel, but the public thought that Burr killed him in cold blood. The public also started to call Burr the new Benedict Arnold. (Benedict Arnold was considered a traitor.) Burr was never harmed in the whole incident. Because everyone thought Burr was the initiator, he had to leave the city and this was the decline of his political power. Both of these men’s reputations were failing by 1804. Hamilton was appointed the first Secretary of Treasury under George Washington after the Revolutionary War. The Federalist Party was in decline and Hamilton did not hold office for approximately ten years. Burr lost the support

Alexander Hamilton was one of the key, founding figures of the Federalist, a political party who believed in a strong, national government. However, Aaron Burr considered himself a Democratic-Republican, a political party who favored for the states to have more power than the national government; in other words, both men believed in the exact opposite for the government of the United States. As a result, Hamilton and Burr disagreed on many things, resulting in a great amount of animosity towards each other. The duel was held on Wednesday, July 11, 1804 in Weehawken, New Jersey. The choice of weapon for the duel was a pistol chosen by Hamilton since he was the one challenged. Again since he was the challenged, Hamilton had the choice of position, so he chose a place located upstream. However, that would include one of many mistakes that would cost him his life. As both men shot at each other, only one was hit. Shot in a fatal location, Hamilton was hit on his right side, right above his hip. Ellis states, “Hamilton himself recognized his own condition almost immediately…Meanwhile, Burr seemed surprised and regretful at the outcome of his shot” (25). The two eyewitnesses at the time, Pendleton and Van Ness, decided to make a “Joint Statement” in which they stated that both men upheld the “code duello”,

Hamilton looks nothing like Burr and is a child from a French-Scottish home. He once disguised himself in the war where he got the senior officer position. He was one of the important leaders of the Federalist Party to the United States of America. During The Duel, Hamilton was 49 years old and his party was severely declining after losing the presidential election to Thomas Jefferson. Ellis states Hamilton’s eagerness as “kinetic energy increasingly expressing itself in bursts of conspicuous brilliance”. Even though Hamilton was not so good that morning, he decided not to really shoot on the first try. According to his statement, he had no intentions of hurting Burr and hoped maybe Burr might stop and think of peace before making the move. Burr and Hamilton joined the political stands around 6:00AM to 7:00AM. Since the duel was illegal, it was called an interview and it was called an interview and it was made in a way that people did not recognize what it actually was. Since Hamilton was the one being put in the ring, he had the chance to pick his weapons. He picked his brother-in-law’s pistol for the fight as this same pistol was used by his son who died. These pistols had hair-trigger and only needed just a little pressure to fire. Hamilton knew about this but of course, he did not inform

Hamilton didn’t wanted Burr to become president, he convinced a member of the federalist in congress to change his vote (page 56), that made Jefferson win the election. Aaron Burr automatically became vice president for four years, but Burr didn’t want to be vice president. Burr wanted to be president, but he know he couldn’t win against Jefferson I n the 1804 election. Burr chose to run for governorship of New York. Burr couldn’t run for governorship, because Alexander Hamilton held a lot of power it the New York state politics. Once again, Hamilton prevent Burr to win governorship. Burr was getting furious at Hamilton for destroyed his political career. Burr challenges Hamilton to a duel. A duel were, when two parties agree on a weapon to use, and fight each other. In this time period, people really didn’t fight at duel, they would had fire their weapon in the air to showed gentlemanliness and sense of Christian. However, Burr shot Hamilton for real. Burr was a murder and a fugitive. Burr headed to the India territory in the Appalachian Mountains. In the Appalachian Mountain, Burr form an nation in the in the Louisiana

Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton had quite a difficult relationship. There were many instances where the two were greatly opposing each other. Due to these instances and others in which Burr had felt completely insulted by Hamilton, Burr challenged Hamilton to a duel in Weehawken, New Jersey. At the Duel, Burr shot Hamilton in the stomach. Hamilton died the next day. Burr was never charged for the murder of Hamilton, but some still consider Burr completely unjust in his actions of challenging and killing Hamilton.

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