Blood Brothers: The Founding Brothers

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I'm comparing and contrasting Hamilton and Burr. I think Burr would be Republican today because the party that he belonged to years ago was the Democratic-Republican party founded in 1791. This party became the Democratic Party of today. However the 1791 old party had 3 beliefs Republicanism, Jeffersonian Democracy, and State Rights. 2 out of the 3 makes me say that he is a Republican. The one belief that doesn't apply is the Jeffersonian Democracy because Jefferson wanted to have the president have the last say in any situation. Now Hamilton would be Democratic today because he believed of a loose interpretation of the Constitution. Hamilton believed that anything that wasn't written in the Constitution he could make his own decisions on. Burr on the other hand believed if it wasn't written in the Constitution it has to go back to the individual State Government to decide.

The chapters are titled "The Generation", "The Duel", "The Dinner", "The Silence", "The Farewell", "The Collaborators" and "The Friendship". In "The Duel", the story of the legendary duel between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr is related in its entirety. It was by far the most prominent deadly standoff between two men in history. Ellis relates the background and brief biographies of the two men involved in the duel. He also reveals the context for the duel, a culmination of political and personal jabs at Burrs character by Hamilton. In fact these jabs held a good deal of truth, and finally resulted in Burr challenging Hamilton. Both Hamilton and Burr went to the plains in Weehawken to conduct the duel in defense of their honor and characters. Historically, Hamilton is seen as a martyr in the duel and Burr seen as a treacherous murderer. This Hamiltonian viewpoint is dominant among historians because it is widely believed that Hamilton went into the duel not intending to fire a shot and that Burr fired the first shot. Ellis believes this version of the story to be wrong. He believes that Hamilton honored his bargain of not firing on Burr, wasting his first shot by firing it into the trees. Burr, thinking that Hamilton fired at him, shot and killed Hamilton with his shot.

5. According to Ellis’s explanation, why did Hamilton and Burr duel in the first place?

Though both Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson served as members of President Washington’s cabinet, the two held very different views on the newly founded U.S. government, interpretation of its constitution, and the role of the “masses” in that government. These conflicting views would develop in two political parties, the Federalists led by Hamilton and the Democratic-Republicans led by Jefferson. Although both political parties presented enticing aspects, Hamilton’s views were much more reasonable and fruitful when compared Jefferson’s views; idealistic and too strict in reference to the constitution.

Chapter One: The Duel was a well-known duel in American history. Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton. July 11, 1804 is the exact date when the duel took place. It was presumed to have taken place in Weehawken, New Jersey; when in actuality, the duel really took place on a ledge above the water near Weehawken. This isolated spot was foolproof for illegal acts like this. Hamilton ends up dying because of Burr. Burr shot him from a distance. The bullet hit a rib and then ricocheted off into his spine mortally wounding Hamilton. Hamilton was the one that chose the position and the weapons for the duel, but the public thought that Burr killed him in cold blood. The public also started to call Burr the new Benedict Arnold. (Benedict Arnold was considered a traitor.) Burr was never harmed in the whole incident. Because everyone thought Burr was the initiator, he had to leave the city and this was the decline of his political power. Both of these men’s reputations were failing by 1804. Hamilton was appointed the first Secretary of Treasury under George Washington after the Revolutionary War. The Federalist Party was in decline and Hamilton did not hold office for approximately ten years. Burr lost the support

After resigning as Vice President due to his infamous duel with the late Alexander Hamilton in July of 1804, Aaron Burr began partaking in suspicious activities. According to rumors, Burr planned to overthrow the government somehow. It now known that Burr and his allies intended to make a new nation in the middle of North America. Word of the cabal’s intentions reached President Thomas Jefferson who ordered an arrest warrant on Burr for treason. It was recently revealed to the public that the person that sold Aaron Burr out is General Wilkinson who was a close ally of Burr. Burr received news that there was a warrant out for his arrest and surrendered to local authorities. There was contemplations of the terms of Burr’s arrest. During this

Whose side would you have been on in the 1790s, Thomas Jefferson’s or Alexander Hamilton’s? Both of these men served under George Washington in the first presidential cabinet, yet they had very different views of what government should be (Davis 86). My objective in this research essay is to inform the reader of why there was so much controversy between these two founding fathers, and to determine which side had the better views for our newly forming country.

Silliman did not entertain Burr’s warnings and pronounced escape impossible and expressed a determination to defend his position “to the last man”. In essence, he was planning to sacrifice all of his troops for his own pride. Burr being the intelligent leader that he was, made a quick decision to take the situation into his own hands and devise a way to save the lives of these men. There was a lot at stake, and considering Silliman was the one in control of the situation and because arguing with him was ineffective, Burr resorted to ruse. Burr decided to mount his horse, gallop back and forth and call out loud that he had just received orders from Washington that the brigade was to abandon the fort back to Harlem Heights. Colonel Silliman fell for the ruse and brigade retreated their position. Despite a few small skirmishes with British troops while retreating, nearly all of the men safely retreated back to Harlem Heights to join up with the larger

Hamilton laughs at them because he is wrong, but he goes on to further taunt them “If I can prove that I never broke the law/Do you promise not to tell another soul what you saw?”. He does this in order for no one else to find out about the affair. It shows that Hamilton cares more about his work and reputation rather than his family. Hamilton tells Burr, Madison and Jefferson about his affair, “I may have mortally wounded my prospects/ But my papers are orderly!”. He finally reveals the details to another person, upon hearing this Burr promises not to tell anyone else. Hamilton says “As you can see I have done nothing to provoke legal action/Are my answers to your satisfaction?” He is trying to prevent a lawsuit against himself. It moves the plot forward, Burr doesn’t have any evidence against Hamilton. Burr stops trying to incriminate Hamilton at least for

In the late 1700s and throughout the 1800s, the emergence of opposing styles of governing became a prominent issue in the new nation of the United States of America. Once being citizens of Britain, the new Americans knew only of one main way of settling these issues: duels. Many examples of duels are accounted: Gwinnett and McIntosh, Philip Hamilton and Eacker, Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr, Jackson and Dickinson, Griswold and Lyon, Clay and Randolph, Sumner and Brooks, and many others. The use of these examples shows the notability of dueling in America. This use of fighting, however, correlated strongly to the emergence of the Civil War, for they saw combat as the only means of solving issues. However, upon the end of the Civil War and

Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton had quite a difficult relationship. There were many instances where the two were greatly opposing each other. Due to these instances and others in which Burr had felt completely insulted by Hamilton, Burr challenged Hamilton to a duel in Weehawken, New Jersey. At the Duel, Burr shot Hamilton in the stomach. Hamilton died the next day. Burr was never charged for the murder of Hamilton, but some still consider Burr completely unjust in his actions of challenging and killing Hamilton.

Alexander Hamilton’s vision came closer to becoming a reality in the 1820’s. By the 1820’s, the Embargo Act, War of 1812 and the Panic of 1819 played a very important role in the reshaping of our countries economic development and scope and power of the American government. The conflict between Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton visions was necessary and made a huge impact on the American development. The main topics of conflict between Thomas Jefferson was the type economy, how much of a role the government played in the lives of the people and how they felt about slavery and the growing black population in America.

Washington resented it, and punished Burr for the rest of his life” (Aaron Burr Association). The 1791 US Senate race brought up a growing enemy for Burr, Alexander Hamilton. When Aaron Burr won the Senate seat from Federalist Philip Schuyler, who happened to be Hamilton’s father-in-law, Hamilton began resenting Aaron Burr for taking the seat. Hamilton started hating Burr for selfish reasons. Burr attempted writing a book on the Revolutionary War, but Thomas Jefferson, Secretary of State denied him access of the library. In the presidential election of 1800, Burr tied with Thomas Jefferson who both received 73 electoral votes. Alexander Hamilton repeatedly tried convincing the House of Representatives to elect Jefferson over Burr, on account of Aaron Burr beating Hamilton’s father–in-law for a seat in the Senate (Senate). Hamilton’s scheme works and Burr is elected Vice President, and this is Aaron Burr’s stressor or breaking point. Thomas Jefferson once said, “I never, indeed thought him an honest, frank-dealing man, but considered him as a crooked gun, or other perverted machine, whose aim or stroke you could never be sure of”(Senate). When Burr was Jefferson’s Vice President he could tell that Aaron Burr’s mind was not all there, and Thomas Jefferson knew that Burr could go off at anytime yet no one knew when.

1 Joseph J. Ellis, “The Duel,” in Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation, (New York, NY: