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Hamilton: I literally pinned you down

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Fifteen facts about the duels in Hamilton:

1) Charles Lee’s second was a man called Evan Edwards.

2) After Laurens shot Lee, he didn’t get medical treatment until Hamilton had negotiated his surrender with Edwards. Knowing Ham, it’s a miracle he didn’t bleed to death.

3) The Lee-Laurens duel took place on Christmas Eve.

4) Ham wrote an account of the duel along with Edwards.

5) Lee wasn’t the coward the musical made him out to be; on the contrary, he proposed a second shot after Laurens injured him. Hamilton refused to let them shoot again - probably because of the possibility of Lee seriously injuring or killing Laurens.

6) George Eacker had a duel with Philip’s friend Richard Price the day before the Hamilton-Eacker duel, neither party was injured.

7) Eacker was a massive Burr supporter and dissed Ham - leading Philip to want revenge - in a pro Burr speech.

8) Philip lived for 14 hours after being shot and died at Angelica’s house.

9) He eventually died from an infection, which is referenced in Stay Alive (Reprise).

10) Philip’s sister Angelica never recovered from his death and spent most of her life in a mental institution.

11) In 1799, Burr duelled with Angelica’s husband and got his coat buttons shot off.

12) Hamilton shot a tree behind Burr, which Burr claimed had been aimed at him.

13) Hamilton used the same pistol Philip had four years earlier, they belonged to Angelica’s husband.

14) Burr was charged with murder in both New York and New Jersey, but was never convicted. The duel did, however, end his political career.

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Lin-Manuel Miranda

At the end of December, the Democratic-Republicans were left with Jefferson and Burr tied at seventy-three votes each. Adams and Pinckney (Federalists) had sixty-five and sixty-four votes each, respectively. No one really expected that the election would end exactly on a tie between the two Democratic-Republican candidates. Jefferson had the South, Adams except for New York. Because of the standards of the day which did not allow for ‘running’ for elected office, but rather, ‘standing’ for it, Jefferson could not, within the social norms, say that he was the preferred candidate over Burr.  Jefferson, however, actually wrote a letter to Burr after the election, saying that because Burr was going to be Vice President he could not be in the cabinet, which left a “chasm… which cannot be adequately filled up.” Of course, Jefferson was not actually President yet - it was a split even tie between the two men. 

The tie meant that it was sent to the House. Each state received one vote to decide who would become President and whom Vice President. The Federalists controlled six states, Republicans eight. Some Federalists wanted to hold out and try to maintain a deadlock so Adams could remain President, but this did not happen, though at some points full on civil war was threatened. 

Sources: the following sources were used - the collected letters/writings of Alexander Hamilton, Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton the Revolution, Ron Chernow’s biography of Hamilton, The Intimate Life of Alexander Hamilton by Allan McLane Hamilton, Hamilton by Richard Syllia, and Charles Cerami’s book called Young Patriots. In addition, War of Two by John Sedgwick and Washington and Hamilton by Tony Williams were used throughout. 

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