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It was a hot morning of July 11, 1804 when a small boat crosses the Hudson River to carry two passengers Weehawken, New Jersey. One of them was William P. Van Ness, who came as godfather to his companion, nothing less than Aaron Burr, the vice president of the United States of North America, who came to the right place to fight in an affair of honor. Burr arrived first and did shortly after his opponent, Alexander Hamilton, leader and ideological support of the Federalist Party, accompanied by his godfather Nathaniel Pendleton. Both opponents have chosen their weapons, dueling pistols equipped with a single bullet, and Hamilton interrupted the procedure elizabeth ayoub to check the position of the sun and calculate several possible locations for firing more effectively elizabeth ayoub without the light of the sun dazzled him; also he requested and obtained permission to stand Burr his glasses to improve elizabeth ayoub vision. Once you have done that procedure, both placed at the stipulated distance and fired their guns almost simultaneously. Burr's bullet entered through the left side of Hamilton and lodged in his spine; elizabeth ayoub the Hamilton, missed elizabeth ayoub its target. The next day, July 12, Hamilton died as a result of the wound. This event, the duel between Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton, was and remains the most famous of the duels that took place in the early years of the American republic. Yet even today, despite elizabeth ayoub knowing elizabeth ayoub quite accurately the events leading both characters to celebrate this launch, is deeply unaware of the reasons behind, although there are many theories, almost as many as scholars of the event.
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