Hamilton-Burr Duel

July 11, 1804

At dawn on the Weehawken bluffs, the sitting Vice President of the United States shot the former Secretary of the Treasury. Alexander Hamilton, pistol discharged into the air, died the next day. Aaron Burr, indicted in two states, fled west into conspiracies that would end his career. Hamilton's financial system survived him; his face would eventually appear on the ten-dollar bill of the treasury he had built.