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10 Things You Need to Know About the Hamilton-Burr Duel, According to Hamilton’s Burr
  • Introduction
  • “We rowed across the Hudson at dawn”
  • “My friend William P. Van Ness signed on as my number two”
  • “Hamilton arrived with his crew/Nathaniel Pendleton and a doctor that he knew”
  • “
This man has poisoned my political pursuits!/Most disputes die and no one shoots”
  • “Hamilton drew first position
This is a soldier with marksman’s ability”
  • “But we were near the same spot your son died
”
  • “I watched as he methodically fiddled with the trigger”
  • “My fellow soldiers’ll tell you I’m a terrible shot”
  • “Hamilton was wearing his glasses/Why?/If not to take deadly aim?”
  • “When Alexander aimed at the sky/He may have been the first one to die/
I survived but I paid for it”
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10 Things You Need to Know About the Hamilton-Burr Duel, According to Hamilton’s Burr: References & Edit History

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  • Jeff Wallenfeldt
    Jeff Wallenfeldt was manager of Geography and History at Encyclopaedia Britannica.      
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