22: An Affair of Honor: Alexander Hamilton & Aaron Burr

History That Doesn't Suck

ProfGregJackson

Education, History, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 19 August 2018

⏱️ 60 minutes

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"Adieu best of wives and best of Women. Embrace all my darling Children for me." This is the story of the most influential duel in American History: Vice President Burr versus General Hamilton. Aaron is down on his luck. He's an outgoing, lame-duck Vice President who's just lost the New York gubernatorial election... and word is Alex's been talking smack. Alex is down on his luck. He's an out-of-the-game General who's hoping to get back in ... and Aaron's calling him out. Aaron's itchin' for a fight; Alex doesn't scare easy. There's only one way to settle this affair of honor: with pistols at Weehawken. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.2	Welcome to History that doesn't suck.
0:42.3	I'm your professor, Greg Jackson, and I'd like to tell you a story.
0:47.7	The morning sun is just cresting over New York City as four ores men row out on the Hudson
0:52.1	River.
0:57.4	They have three passengers.
1:00.3	One is the dark featured Hamilton family physician and friend, Dr. David Hosek.
1:06.0	Next is another one of Alexander Hamilton's good friends, the well-respected jurist, Judge
1:10.7	Nathaniel Pendleton.
1:13.1	And finally, yeah, Alexander.
1:18.5	And it's on this beautiful, oddly crisp summer morning, Wednesday, July 11, 1804, that
1:24.6	the founding father of finance will duel against the current vice president, Aaron Burr.
1:30.7	Alex watches his adopted hometown slowly shrink into the distance.
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