USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Alexander Hamilton was 49 years old when he died in a duel with Aaron Burr. Alexander Hamilton’s birth year is still up for debate, so he was either 47 or 49 when he died.

Detailed explanation-2: -However, other sources say that he thought that Hamilton had brought his death upon himself and did not feel remorse for killing him. There are also accounts of Burr seeming to retain his anger toward Hamilton even many years after the duel, again suggesting a lack of remorse.

Detailed explanation-3: -Hamilton sometimes sent poems and letters to be published in the local newspaper. When he was about 15, he wrote a letter about a recent hurricane. People were so impressed with the teenager’s writing skills that in 1772, they raised the money to send Hamilton to the American colonies to get an education.

Detailed explanation-4: -Burr shot Hamilton in the abdomen. The ball crashed through a rib, went through his liver and stuck in his spine. Hamilton gasped, “I am a dead man” and collapsed.

Detailed explanation-5: -Immediately following her husband’s death, Eliza was so distraught that friends and family feared for her sanity. She did not attend the funeral, and soon retreated with her daughters and younger sons to her father’s house in Albany.