Title: The duel
First published: 2009
Description: In curiously parallel lives, Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr were both orphaned at an early age. Both were brilliant students who attended college, one at Princeton, the other at Columbia, and studied law. Both were young staff officers under General George Washington, and both became war heroes. Politics beckoned them, and each served in the newly formed government of the fledgling nation. Why, then, did these two face each other at dawn in a duel that ended with death for one and opprobrium for the other?
Subjects: Juvenile literature, Burr-Hamilton Duel, Weehawken, N.J., 1804, History
Places: United States
People: Aaron Burr (1756-1836), Alexander Hamilton (1757-1804)
Time periods: 1783-1815
LC classification: E302.6.H2 S77 2009