Stoddert, Louisiana Territory, captured the fugitive Aaron Burr ... months before Burr killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel. Vice President Burr's political hopes in the East were fading by then.

On July 11, 1804, Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr met on the dueling grounds at Weehawken, New Jersey, to fight the final skirmish of a long-lived political and personal battle. When the duel ...