On the morning of July 11, 1804, Aaron Burr, the vice president of the United States, and Alexander Hamilton, the first and former secretary of the Treasury, engaged in combat in Weehawken, New Jersey.
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American revolutionary, politician, and one of the country's founding fathers, Alexander Hamilton. In addition to founding the Federalist Party, the country's financial system, the United States Coast Guard, and the New York Post newspaper, he was a significant defender and interpreter of the US Constitution.
From 1801 until 1805, American politician and attorney Aaron Burr Jr. held the office of third vice president. Burr's infamous personal feud with Alexander Hamilton, which culminated in Hamilton being killed in a duel by Burr in 1804, while Burr was vice president, is what defines Burr's legacy.
During the Revolutionary War, Hamilton and Burr both excitedly enlisted in the colonial army. Burr served until ill health forced him to retire in 1779. He participated in battles in New York and New Jersey, survived the fabled Valley Forge winter encampment. Before gaining his long-desired glory on the battlefield at Yorktown, Hamilton spent the most of the war serving as a personal assistant to General George Washington, who had taken the gifted teenager under his wing.
Burr and Hamilton both moved to New York City after the war, where they established themselves as attorneys (even cooperating on a high-profile murder prosecution), and started their foray into politics. As one of the co-authors of the Federalist Papers, a collection of essays advocating the virtues of the new U.S. Constitution, Hamilton acquired notoriety in addition to serving as a delegate to the Constitutional Convention.
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