The Duel of Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr

from Same Day, Different Century · host Zach Ipsen

On July 11, 1804, Vice President Aaron Burr and former Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton met at dawn on a New Jersey ledge to settle an old quarrel with pistols. Two of the young republic's most brilliant minds had opposed each other for more than a decade, until a single insulting word forced the matter to a point neither man's code of honor would let him abandon. What happened in that instant was witnessed by no one and has been disputed ever since.Send me a text!Support the show

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