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 ...

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 ...

Sherri Burr, a 59-year-old professor at the University of New Mexico, is descended from John Pierre Burr, who is almost certainly Aaron Burr's son. Aaron Burr (1756-1836) John Vanderlyn (1775-1852 ...

On the heels of his defeat, Burr challenged his rival to a duel as he felt Hamilton had publicly maligned his character. At dawn on July 11, the two met on the banks of the Hudson River where Burr ...

They were used in the duel between Aaron Burr and Mr. Church in 1799, and it is stated that they next figured in the fatal meeting between Philip H. Hamilton, the eldest son of Alexander Hamilton ...

Hamilton was mortally wounded by Burr's shot during the duel, and died 31 hours later at a friend's home in Manhattan on July 12, 1804. The nation was shocked.

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 ...

Burr had just made an unsuccessful bid to win New York's 1804 gubernatorial race, losing to Morgan Lewis. On the heels of his defeat, Burr challenged his rival to a duel as he felt Hamilton had ...