Case Study: Ocean City, N. J.

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.

Alexander Hamilton lost his life in 1804, in a duel with Vice President Aaron Burr.

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Before the duel, Hamilton wrote a letter called “Statement on Impending Duel with Aaron Burr”. He wrote in the letter that he was “strongly opposed the practice of dueling’ for both religious and practical reasons. He then continued stating “I have resolved, if our interview is conducted in the usual manner, and it pleases God to give me the opportunity, to reserve and throw away my first fire, and I have thoughts even of reserving my second fire.” While Dr. Hosack, the doctor called to help Hamilton after being shot, was told by Hamilton that his gun was still loaded. This is evidence for the theory that Hamilton intended not to fire, honoring his pre-duel pledge, and only fired accidentally upon being hit. Do to the fact that Hamilton desperately did not want to duel with Burr, his only decision was to write the letter to him. “To appease his moral and religious reservations about dueling, he attempted to placate Burr with an elaborate discussion of the “infinite shades” of meaning of the word “despicable”—a grammar lesson that Burr found evasive, manipulative, and offensive.”

Mark Lopez had survived the shot wound he had received from James on the right leg. However, James was pronounced dead when paramedics got to the house. The paramedics for tolled that James died right when he was shot in the head.

However; Hamilton advised everyone not to vote for him, thus; causing Burr to lose, again. Despite Hamilton not being the only one to go against Burr, Burr challenged Hamilton to a duel, which, ultimately lead to his death, which ended his personal life. Ultimately, Hamilton’s actions in the election of 1800 lead to the election of Thomas Jefferson as president, but caused a fatal end in

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The only truth is that he was born out of wedlock - something looked at far worse 200 years ago than it is now. However, being fatherless was the least of Hamilton’s setbacks. Ones that make the list include: Hamilton’s mother dying at his young age of ten, his cousin, who took care of him after his mother death, committing suicide, a hurricane obliterating his town, and many more. All the ones listed happened before arriving in America in 1772.

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

During this time Hamilton met Marquis de Lafayette and John Laurens, who were also some of his closest friends and were very influential in the Revolutionary War. When Washington heard of Hamilton in his ranks he was so impressed by his natural intelligence and leadership that he offered the rank of Lieutenant Colonel to Hamilton. Having been offered this positon two times before, once even by Knox, Hamilton had his doubts but he could not turn down this offer from the commander-in-chief of the army and became his right hand man while still fighting for his country (Bio of Alexander Hamilton, 4-5). But in 1779, Hamilton got his first taste of prejudice when a rumor was spread around congress that Hamilton had no interest in defending the country. Hamilton was infuriated and defended himself from the fabrication of this statement. This attack on him personally, would stick with him throughout his entire career for the intense investigation showed that he was an outsider and an alien. (Bio of Alexander Hamilton, 7). In 1780 luck fell upon Hamilton when he fell in love with Elizabeth Schuyler. Her father Philip Schuyler was well off and willing to give Eliza to Hamilton even thought he was penniless and property less. They then got married at the end of the year. In 1781 Washington and Hamilton started to fight and ultimately ended in Hamilton handing in his resignation from the army. During his break from the army Hamilton wrote and had many thoughts about America’s financial system. Later that year Hamilton rejoined the army hearing of a new strike on the British forces. Washington welcomed him back by giving Hamilton the command of an army and ordered him to assault the British at Yorktown (Bio of Alexander Hamilton, 10-11,13-14). A few days later the British surrendered and Hamilton left the army to join his

George Eacker publically insulted Philip’s father, to the point where Philip decided he had to retaliate. After challenging Eacker to a duel at Weehawken, NJ, He goes to his father to ask for help. At this point Hamilton makes the fatal decision of giving his gun to Philip and offering advice in how to fight in the duel in order to save his pride. It’s natural that Hamilton assumed that the conflict would be resolved before any guns were drawn, as that is what usually happened in duels back then. Eacker shot Philip in his side, causing him a slow, painful death, and Hamilton an even more painful realization that his son had died in his arms. It must have been fate or some other intervention that caused George Eacker to break etiquette and brutally murder Philip

Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr friendship crumbles after Burr betrays his running mate Hamilton in 1789 to become Attorney General of New York and the final straw for Hamilton was Burr’s acceptation into Senate seat against Hamilton’s father-in-law in 1791 starting a rivalry that began an exchange of letters back and forth full of snarky remarks and back-handed compliments. Eventually the antagonism rose to the level of anger and dishonor that Burr invites Hamilton to an interview at Weehawken, New Jersey along the Hudson River, which in those times was a genteel and highly respectable way to ask for a duel according the rules of code duello. “They exchanged pistol shots at ten paces” and a shot hit Hamilton’s right side resulting in his

He was known for his temper, and was very controversial, even amongst his own party. Hamilton married and had multiple children, but he also had an affair with another woman during his marriage. Further, his son died in a duel defending his honor, and later Hamilton was killed in duel by Aaron Burr. Hamilton is a reminder that even the geniuses and Founding Fathers were flawed, and they still managed to found arguably one of the strongest countries

Alexander Hamilton, having been born in the British West Indies, endured a difficult childhood, largely because there was little money to spare. His father, James Hamilton, was offered a job on St. Croix, collecting money from a man in debt. Due to this, Alex and his family moved to the island. Shortly after collecting the debt, James left St. Croix alone, deserting his family forever. Alexander never saw his father again, but proceeded to express his feelings to James through letters. Two years later, Hamilton and his mother were struck deathly ill. Alex began to recover, but his mother unfortunately perished. Left as an orphan, Alexander felt as though life couldn’t get any harder. That was, until the hurricane hit. The disaster spread devastation throughout the entire island. Hamilton wrote a letter to his father, describing the