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Wonderfully detailed reports on the Hamilton - Burr duel...
Wonderfully detailed reports on the Hamilton - Burr duel...
Item # 705560
August 17, 1804
THE TIMES, London, England, Aug. 17, 1804 This is a wonderful issue on the infamous Hamilton-Burr duel, with page 2 beginning: "We yesterday received sets of the N.Y. papers...They are almost entirely filled with particulars relating to that melancholy event, the death of General Hamilton, which has diffused a general; gloom over every part of the American continent...That unfortunate catastrophe, which has torn from the state of New York one of its most distinguished characters, appears to have deeply interested the feelings of the inhabitants...His death is as universally regretted..." with much more.
Then page 3 begins with the details, headed: "Duel Between Gen. Hamilton and Col. Burr" which is wonderfully inclusive, and includes letters between the two and their seconds: A. Burr, A. Hamilton, W. P. Van Ness and Nathaniel Pendleton. This reporting and the letters consume all of page 3, carrying over to take more than a column on page 4, where is found the: "Will" signed in type by: Alexander Hamilton.
Category: Pre-Civil War
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