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English: Illustration, "Duel between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr. After the painting by J. Mund." The duel took place in Weehawken, New Jersey on July 11, 1804. Note: possibly due to artistic license and the problems of perspective and canvas size etc, the duellists are standing at an unusually short distance from each other. While it is known that some duels did indeed take place at very short distances such as this, most were fought where the opponents were standing approximately 50 feet apart.
The protagonists are dressed in anachronistic 18th century dress, not the common fashion of the early 19th century.
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Source Lord, John, LL.D. (1902). Beacon Lights of History. Vol. XI, "American Founders." (London: James Clarke and Co Ltd. Republished as a Project Gutenberg eBook, 2004-01-08. eBbook no. 10644.
Author Illustrator not identified. From a painting by J. Mund.
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current22:01, 16 October 2017Thumbnail for version as of 22:01, 16 October 2017904 × 628 (329 KB)Lwarrenwiki (talk | contribs)Higher resolution version from https://archive.org/details/beaconlightsofhi10644gut, image at https://ia800306.us.archive.org/31/items/beaconlightsofhi10644gut/10644-h/Illus0368.jpg
22:23, 12 January 2006Thumbnail for version as of 22:23, 12 January 2006640 × 442 (52 KB)Topory (talk | contribs)Z http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Hamilton-burr-duel.jpg Alexander Hamilton duelling with Aaron Burr. From http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/0/6/4/10644/10644-h/Illus0368.jpg, a Gutenberg file of a 1902 book. {{PD-art}}

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