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The famous duel between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr was the culmination of a story three decades in the making. Rivals unto Death vividly traces their rivalry back to the earliest days of the American Revolution, when Hamilton and Burr both brilliant, restless, and barely twenty years old elbowed their way onto the staff of General George Washington. The fast-moving account traces their intricate tug-of war, uncovering surprising details that led to their deadly encounter through battlefields, courtrooms, bedrooms, and the wildest presidential election in history, counting down the years to their fateful rendezvous on the dueling ground.
This is politics made personal: shrill accusations, bruising collisions, and a parade of flesh and blood founders strugglingand often failingto keep their tempers and jealousies in check. Smoldering in the background was a fundamental political divide that threatened to tear the new nation in two, and still persists to this day.
The Burr and Hamilton that leap out of these pages are passionate, engaging, and utterly human characters inextricably linked together as Rivals unto Death.
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Copyright 2017 by Rick Beyer
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Aaron Burr image courtesy of the Library of Congress (LC-USZ62-52550).
Alexander Hamilton image courtesy of the Library of Congress (LC-D416-444)
ISBN 978-0-316-50496-6
E3-20170107-JV-PC
Aaron Burr (17561836)
Alexander Hamilton (17551804)
For Marilyn,
who shares a birthday with Alexander Hamilton, and shared in the creation of this book
I have taken the liberty of altering punctuation, abbreviations, spelling, and capitalization in some quotes to make them easier to read and understand.
The party founded by Thomas Jefferson in opposition to the Federalists was sometimes known as the Democratic party, sometimes the Republican party, and sometimes the Democratic-Republican party. For the sake of clarity I refer to it as the Republican party. It is not connected with todays Republican party, which was not founded until the 1850s.
To help readers keep track of the fascinating multitudes who parade through these pages, and to see what happened to them afterwards, there is a Cast of Characters section at the back of the book.
1755 Alexander Hamilton born on Caribbean island of Nevis
1756 Aaron Burr born in Newark, NJ
1772 Hurricane hits Nevis
Burr graduates from College of New Jersey (later named Princeton)
1774 Hamilton comes to New York, attends Kings College (later named Columbia)
1775 Battle of Lexington, Battle of Quebec
1776 Declaration of Independence
Burr serves briefly on George Washingtons staff
Battle of New York, Battle of Trenton
1777 Hamilton joins Washingtons staff, promoted to Lt. Colonel
Burr promoted to Lt. Colonel
1778 Battle of Monmouth
Burr meets Theodosia Prevost
1780 Hamilton meets and marries Eliza Schuyler
1781 Battle of Yorktown
1782 Burr marries Theodosia Prevost
Hamiltons son Philip is born
Hamilton elected to Continental Congress
1783 Revolutionary War ends
British leave New York City after seven years of occupation
Burr and Hamilton set up law practices in New York
1784 Hamilton helps found Bank of New York
Burr elected to New York General Assembly
1786 Hamilton elected to New York General Assembly
Annapolis Commission meets
1787 Constitutional Convention
First of the Federalist Papers published
1788 New York Ratifying Convention
1789 Washington becomes president
Storming of the Bastille
Washington appoints Hamilton secretary of the treasury
New York Governor George Clinton appoints Burr state attorney general
1790 Dinner table bargain between Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison
Capital moves to Philadelphia
1791 Burr defeats Philip Schuyler in race for U.S. senator from New York
Hamilton begins affair with Maria Reynolds
1792 Burr runs for governor of New York, eventually withdraws
Burr runs for vice president, Hamilton secretly attacks him
1793 French King Louis XVI guillotined
France declares war on England, United States declares neutrality
Citizen Gent tours United States
1794 Burrs wife Theodosia dies
Washington and Hamilton lead army to put down Whiskey Rebellion
1795 Hamilton resigns from Treasury
Jay Treaty made public, generating fierce controversy
1796 Burr runs again for governor of New York, eventually withdraws
Burr defeated in second run for vice president
John Adams elected president, Jefferson elected vice president
1797 Burr loses U.S. Senate seat
Hamilton confronts Madison, Burr helps avert duel
Hamilton publishes Reynolds Pamphlet detailing affair
XYZ Affair
1798 Quasi-War with France
Burr elected to New York General Assembly
Hamilton appointed deputy commander of the provisional army
Washington declines to appoint Burr as army quartermaster
Congress passes Alien and Sedition Acts
1799 Washington dies
Burr forms Manhattan Company, which went on to become Chase Manhattan Bank, now JPMorgan Chase Bank
Burr duels John Barker Church (no one hurt)
1800 Hamilton and Burr defend Levi Weeks in murder trial
Burr engineers critical victory in New York legislative elections
Jefferson and Burr tie in run for president
Capital moves to Washington, D.C.
1801 House of Representatives elects Jefferson president on 36th ballot
Hamiltons son Philip killed in duel
Hamilton founds New York Post
1802 Pamphlet Wars begin
1804 Burr defeated in New York gubernatorial election
Burr challenges Hamilton to duel and kills him
1805 Burr journeys west to mount a controversial military expedition
1807 Burr tried for treason, acquitted
1813 Burrs daughter Theodosia dies in shipwreck
1836 Burr dies
1854 Eliza Hamilton dies
1929 Hamilton pictured on $10 bill
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