Posted on 02/09/2015 5:47:51 PM PST by correctthought
Really?
Yes. There is no KGB anymore, just like there is no ACORN anymore.
Walmart should tell that so-called church to go to hell.
Did Aaron Burr buy his dueling pistol at Wal-Mart?
He probably bought it from a professional gunsmith.
After Washington became President, he relied on Hamilton for setting US policy and drafting many of his speeches.
According to Rule 16 of the code, the challenged (in this case, Hamilton) had the right to choose the weapons. Hamilton chose a set of dueling pistols owned by his brother-in-law, John Barker Church, who’d once participated in a shot-less duel with Burr. The Church weapons, as they came to be called, had a macabre history that Hamilton would’ve known well: they were the same pistols used in the duel that killed his son, Philip, three years earlier, also at Weehawken.
Thanks for that picture!
“...long after this marble shall have moldered into dust...”
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The word “mouldered” was hard to make out, I had to go look it up.
(the U looked like an N to me)
I recently visited the graves in Colonial Park Cemetery in Savannah
of both Button Gwinnett
(a signer of the Declaration and a 2nd Governor of Georgia)
as well as his political rival, Lachlan McIntosh.
McIntosh killed Gwinnett in a duel in 1777.
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