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At dawn on July 11, 1804, Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton met on the Heights of Weehawken in New Jersey after years of political rivalry and a failed exchange of letters over insults made during Burr’s campaign for governor of New York. Weehawken was a favored dueling ground across from Manhattan, chosen in part to avoid stricter prosecution in New York. During the encounter, Burr shot Hamilton in the abdomen, and Hamilton died the next day in what is now Greenwich Village. The duel ruined Burr’s political future, weakened the Federalist Party Hamilton had helped build, and became a defining political and personal drama of the early United States.
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