Hamilton-Burr Duel - 1804

[+ azdr0710]

• reposting from last year......
   

 

 

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/burr-slays-hamilton-in-duel

https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/hamilton-burr-duel.htm

the actual site of the duel is now covered by the urban development of Weehawken, NJ, directly across the Hudson River from Manhattan.....shoreline reconfiguration and railroad construction obliterated the site by the late 1800s........a new memorial statue near the site, showing Hamilton honorably aiming slightly away from Burr while Burr aims for Hamilton's gut, is on Harbor Blvd., north of 19th St., next to the river.....the Weehawken Dueling Grounds park and statue up on top of the cliffs on Hamilton Ave off John F Kennedy Blvd is not the actual site, but overlooks the approximate area of the grounds below.......

 

 

 

 

Edited July 11, 2023 by azdr0710

[Luv2play]

I was interested to see Gov. DeWitt Clinton also dueled on this site and survived apparently. His everlasting legacy to the State of New York and the city of New York was advocating and passing the legislation to create the Erie Canal in 1817. 

That signal act, opposed by many, created the Empire State, with the port of New York surpassing Philadelphia and Boston to become the financial hub which it remains to this day.

I wonder who challenged his honor?

 

[Luv2play]

Interestingly, the Erie Canal paid for itself in the first year of operation. It was a stupendous accomplishment, stretching over 360 miles from the Hudson River to Buffalo and the Great Lakes. It opened up the midwest to efficient commerce and transport of farm products. It came at just the right time, a quarter century or so  before railways started to replace water transportation.

Its locks and aqueducts were marvels of engineering only surpassed in North America by the St. Lawrence Seaway more than a century later.