Alexander Hamilton’s grave is in the Trinity Church Cemetery in Manhattan. Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton was born in 1757 in the year of the Chinese zodiac Ox. The party brought him back to New York, where he died the following day. Elizabeth Schuyler was born in 1757, just a year after her older sister. Either way, what happened after that is undisputed: Burr’s bullet tore through Hamilton’s stomach and lodged in his spine. While Hamilton’s “second” (or back-up participant) claimed Hamilton fired into the air, never intending to harm his opponent, Burr’s second reported Hamilton did aim at Burr and simply missed. In an epistolary picture book, McNamara envisions Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton as an elderly woman writing a letter to her yet-to-be-born great-granddaughter. On July 11, 1804, Hamilton and Burr met in Weehawken, New Jersey-exactly where Philip Hamilton was fatally shot three years prior-to carry out their illegal duel. Burr demanded an apology, hubristic Hamilton refused, and they eventually decided a duel was the only way to resolve their issues. Hamilton used his influence to discredit Burr and bring about his defeat in the presidential election of 1800 and again in New York’s gubernatorial election of 1804.
“And to Hamilton, that was absolutely unconscionable.” He was a total opportunist, who would go whichever way proved the greatest advantage to him,” John Sedgwick, author of War of Two: Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr and the Duel That Stunned a Nation, told. They were both orphans who graduated from King’s College, became lawyers, and fought in the Revolutionary War, but Hamilton was passionate and committed to his Federalist ideology, and Burr didn’t really have one.
While Hamilton’s death at the hands of Aaron Burr was shocking, it wasn’t totally surprising-the two politicians had butted heads for years.
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