The Duel

Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton prepare to duel. The famed Hamilton-Burr duel resulted in the death of Alexander Hamilton, a favorite son of the revolution and a popular political figure. The loss of Hamilton was perceived as a devastating blow to the fledgling United States, and instantly called into question the irresponsibility and foolishness of dueling and its code of conduct, the duello. Preachers and politicians alike used this duel as a catalyst to begin a large and successful movement to ban dueling, as seen in the Lyman Beecher tracts in a previous section.