[metesky]

One of the great tragedies of American history is that all Burr's papers went down at sea with his only daughter so we only have others' descriptions of what he did, we never get the why.

Thug politics go back thousands of years, but the organizational skills Burr brought to Tammany Hall let the Hall pretty much run NYC politics for close to 100 years.

On the other hand, Burr set a lot of the Senatorial protocol that continues to this day. When Burr stepped down at the end of his term and gave his farewell speech to the Senate many members were in tears.

Hamilton was practically begging Burr to kill him and Burr obliged.

[muawiyah]

My understanding is that Burr's commanding officer was the same General Lee that Washington courtmartialed with a bank of officers named Lafayette, Hamilton, jefferson, and someone else whose name escapes me.

Just for the sake of personal honor he'd probably shot all of them if he could have gotten away with it.

If there are corrections, note them somewhere.

[Little Bill]

Sounds like Hitleries billing records. My family was from NY in the Earlie's there was a definite separation of Burrs from Hamilton's. You might notice that Clinton was an Anti Federalist and a very popular Gov.

The Burr-Hamilton controversy was about NYC and votes their service with Washington is enshrined but the 80% who fought in the Milita with Sullivan is ignored.