February's anniversaries.(Aaron Burr acquitted of treason in Alexander Hamilton's killing)(Design and construction of Old Bailey courthouse)(Andrei Gromyko's political life)

History Today | February 1, 2007| | Copyright

Aaron Burr Arrested for Treason

February 19th, 1807

THE THIRD VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES was involved in two of the most sensational episodes in the America of his day. In a duel in 1804, when he was forty-eight, he killed Alexander Hamilton, one of the country's founding fathers, and three years later after complicated legal proceedings he was questionably acquitted of treason.

Aaron Burr came from a prominent family of clerics and scholars, but he always had a wild streak. Orphaned as a baby, he was brought up by an uncle who would find ...

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