Hamilton Killed in Duel with Burr: The VP Shoots the Treasury Secretary
Aaron Burr's single shot shattered Alexander Hamilton's liver and lodged in his spine, ending the life of the Founding Father who had just fired harmlessly into the air. This fatal exchange at Weehawken extinguished Hamilton's political ambitions instantly while leaving Burr to spend the rest of his career hunted by the law and reviled by the public he once sought to lead.
July 11, 1804
222 years ago
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