When Aaron Burr shotAlexander Hamiltonon July 11 , 1804 , the view must have been spookily familiar to the former Secretary of the Treasury . After all , his boy give way in a similar background just three year sooner .
On November 20 , 1801 , 19 - twelvemonth - old Philip Hamilton and his friend Richard Price had a run - in with a young attorney refer George I. Eacker at Manhattan ’s Park Theatre . A supporter of Thomas Jefferson , Eacker had delivered a Fourth of July speech that gratingly criticized the sr. Hamilton , and his Logos was ostensibly determined to take retaliation .
On that fatal day in November , grant to biographerRon Chernow , Price and the younger Hamilton " push forward into a box seat where Eacker was enjoying the show … [ then ] began taunting Eacker about his Fourth of July oration . "
As onlooker set forth to gaze , Eacker asked the two young men to go into the lobby , where he call the pair " damned rascals . " temper uprise , and although the trio went to a tavern in an attempt to settle their difference , they betray miserably . subsequently the same dark , Eacker had a letter from cost challenging him to duel .
Customs of the time mean that Eacker had little pick but to take or face societal humiliation . He and Price met that Sunday in New Jersey , where the penalties for duel were less knockout than in New York . They exchanged four shots without injury — and considered the topic between them close .
Philip Hamilton was n’t so lucky . cool head tried to negotiate a armistice with Eacker ’s mo , but their efforts were also for zip . Once the duel had been scheduled for November 23 on a sandbar in today ’s Jersey City , the elder Hamilton suggest his son to preserve his honor and waste his first shoot by either hold off until Eacker fired first or burn into the air , a move the French call thedelope . The aim was to dilute the affaire d’honneur short , and , if the other side give the axe to kill , obviously show they had blood on their manpower .
Philip seemed to follow his father ’s advice . For about a hour after the duel officially began , neither man made a move . Then , Eacker raised his pistol , and Philip did , too . Eacker fired and hit Philip , who shot back , though it may have been an nonvoluntary reaction to having been struck . The bullet train tore through Philip ’s consistency and settle in his left arm . Despite being rushed to Manhattan , he died early the next dayspring .
On July 11 , 1804 , Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr also departed to New Jersey , this time to Weehawken , to finalize theirinfamous differences . The elder Hamilton fired the first shaft — and he calculate to miss . ( Accordingto his 2nd , anyway . ) Burr , on the other helping hand , seemed to have every intention of connecting with his fair game . He sprout Hamilton in the breadbasket , and the slug lodged in his back .
Just like Philip , Hamilton died the next day .
steer over to ourAlexander Hamilton biographypage for more backcloth behind Hamilton ’s notable affaire d’honneur with Aaron Burr .
