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Burr-Hamilton duel: Media
duel, Weehawken, New Jersey, United States [1804]
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Burr-Hamilton duel
Alexander Hamilton (right) being fatally shot by Aaron Burr during their duel, 1804.
© North Wind Picture Archives
Alexander Hamilton
Alexander Hamilton, oil on canvas by John Trumbull, c. 1792; in the National Gallery...
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Gift of the Avalon Foundation, 1952.1.1
U.S. Vice Pres. Aaron Burr
Aaron Burr, oil painting by John Vanderlyn, 1809; in the collection of the New-York...
Collection of The New-York Historical Society
Hamilton-Burr duel
Statues of Alexander Hamilton (foreground) and Aaron Burr with dueling pistols, Museum...
Terese Loeb Kreuzer/Alamy
Face-off: Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr
Artist's depiction of the 1804 duel between Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton.
Beacon Lights of History, Vol. XI, by John Lord, 1902
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