Posted on 07/13/2020 6:51:03 PM PDT by Perseverando
He intentionally fired into the air, but his political rival, the sitting Vice-President Aaron Burr, took deadly aim and fatally shot Alexander Hamilton in a duel JULY 11, 1804.
Alexander Hamilton was born in the British West Indies on the Island of Nevis, either in the year 1755 or 1757, and grew up on the Island of St. Croix.
Just a few years earlier, in 1751, 19-year-old George Washington had accompanied his older half-brother Lawrence on a trip to the not too distant Island of Barbados.
Since Alexander Hamilton's parents were not legally married, he was not permitted to attend the Anglican academy, resulting in him being tutored at a private school by a Jewish headmistress.
Hamilton worked for merchants till, at the age of 17, he sailed to Massachusetts in 1772 to attend Elizabethtown Academy.
He was studying at Columbia College in New York when the Revolutionary War started.
Alexander Hamilton fought in the Battle of White Plains and the Battle of Trenton.
He served four years as aide-de-camp to General George Washington.
Promoted to Lieutenant Colonel, Alexander Hamilton led a bayonet attack at night capturing Redoubt No. 10 which helped the Continental Army win the Battle of Yorktown, October 19, 1781.
During the Revolution, Alexander Hamilton wrote "The Farmer Refuted," February 23, 1775, stating:
"The Supreme Being gave existence to man, together with the means of preserving and beautifying that existence ...
and invested him with an inviolable right to personal liberty and personal safety ..."
He continued:
"The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records.
They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the Hand of the Divinity itself,
(Excerpt) Read more at myemail.constantcontact.com ...
They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the Hand of the Divinity itself,<<
Short Translation: More Range time....
Bkmk
He intentionally fired into the air, but his political rival, the sitting Vice-President Aaron Burr, took deadly aim and fatally shot Alexander Hamilton in a duel.
Democrats have always been a**holes.
I’d personally buy Burr a beer; Hamilton would be a democrat today. As it was he was pro-urban policy, pro central bank, and the most over the top Federalist of his time. While Madison and his supporters were agrarian and devout Christian, and had a vision of a similar rural America full of self-reliant and self-governing people Hamilton was a closeted atheist and saw a strongly hierarchical society, with a lower class to do the menial labor work in the cities, and a strong federal government to keep them in line, and pro-mercantile laws to develop the urban areas into global power centers.
Hamilton’s ball went past Burr’s head.
You may find this of interest.
From the Smithsonian Magazine, “Pistols shed light on famed duel”
http://www.aaronburrassociation.org/Smithsonian.htm
Maybe the single best thing we as a country could do would be to bring back political duels. In fact, make them mandatory in certain cases.
Much better than term limits.
Indeed, Hamilton wanted a monarchy ... An American Aristocracy. Like many of the Deep State and their politicians, he wanted Dynasties.
Aaron Burr intentionally fired into the air.
Alexander Hamilton took deadly aim and fatally shot Alexander Hamilton.
Aaron Burr must have been a proto democrat.
“Hamilton shot first.”
False start. Calls for a do-over.
Wait! There are no do-over’s in duelling.
That is a great idea. I’ll make a meme of it.
The peanut butter commercial about this was pretty funny.
I stood on that small patch of ground in Weehawken, NJ a long time ago.
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