As funny and ironic as it is, it isn't actually true. Out of the multiple Burr biographies that I've read (as well as two on his 2nd wife) I've never seen this mentioned. Ron Chernow doesn't cite where he got the information either, so he most likely couldn't verify it (since it's not true) and just... chose to put it in his book anyway.
Basically. And the cherry on top of was Alexander Hamilton, Jr., getting revenge on what Burr did to his father was representing Eliza Jumel during their divorce
Hamilton: Offer me money. Burr: Yes all that I have and more! Hamilton: Offer me land and power in a new empire out west. Burr: Yes anything you want! Hamilton: I want my father back you son of b*****!
Frankly, I think this is what "The World was Wide Enough" was really referring to, rather then the duel. By that point in the story, Burr was an old man looking backwards, analyzing his life after his duel with Alexander Hamilton. The words "The World was Wide Enough for Alexander and me"? They were written by Burr himself, long after conspiracy happened.
If you think Burr's character is interesting, then I strongly recommend you also look into the character of Marquis de la Fayette. That man gave zero fucks about authoritian dictatorships/regents. The guy had an amazing life.
Interesting yes, but burrs actions as according to history will still leave him in a bad light...poor guy seems like a screw up with big dreams, I guess they came true just not The way I think he would have imagined...I guess we remember him exactly the way he lived.
@@davidholguin2532 except we dont. I read up a bit on him, and a large portion of what history tells us is... very dubious in a lot of areas. The things that we do know are real are most of the events happening while Hamilton was alive. Burr was disliked by people, surely.. but people weren't readily or openly slandering him or spreading bad news about him. His duel with Hamilton, and his public campaign about Jefferson lost him nearly any favor he had both personally (as hamilton's death was considered murder by many) and politically (as Jefferson never trusted Burr again and turned many people against him). Now... the idea that he wanted to start his own nation, on the one hand it would fit someone as narcissistic.. but it also fits how Jefferson and all his political allies viewed Burr at the time; a traitor willingly to sacrifice everyone for his own gain. When it came down to his conspiracy, nearly everyone who testified against Burr was in some way politically aligned with Jefferson or already anti-Burr. I mean, he was probably by all rights a scheming character, but looking at some characters from that era.. quite a LOT of them were shady in a lot of ways. And interesting of note: Burr was the only politician in those times to favor the complete emancipation of any and all slaves in the USA, and wanted women to have the right to vote (though admittedly I believe that might be related to him being quite a charmer.. despite being very truthful to his first wife Theodosia)
When listening back to the song dear Theodosia with the context that neither of the children would outlive their fathers is probably the saddest thing ive ever heard
Great, thank you! Couldn’t be in the room where it happened, tried to make his own room, failed, ran away to Europe, wasn’t welcome there, came back to NYC, married a woman named Eliza, couldn’t make that work and the divorce was handled by A.Ham Jr. Man could NOT get out of the shadow... again, thanks,
And this stuff doesn’t make it into the history books! I always felt like “Hamilton” painted Burr as a sympathetic character, you’re supposed to feel sorry for him because he could never keep up with Hamilton, and then he laments the fact that he will forever be known as the guy who killed Hamilton. But there’s so much more to the story.
@Gee Vee he was wishywashy on remorse. He’s sometimes quoted with the remorse and other times he says shit like, “If the sun hadn’t been in my eyes, I would have shot him in the head.”
This explains why Hamilton endorsed Jefferson, his arch rival, for President. Hamilton, at some point, took a good read of Aaron Burr and what he saw apparently terrified him. Hamilton, a man of excellent insight and integrity. Too bad he threw away his shot.
When you think about it Aaron Burr's life after killing Hamilton went downhill... It's as the musical said: he might have been the first one to die but I'm the one who paid for it. Cuz if you think about it he really did pay for it. Karma creeped up on him until his last breath, and nowadays people don't really think that highly of him. So he really did pay for it even if he did get away with it legally he eventually ended up paying a lot of prices for it.
He deserved everything he got he killed Alexander Hamilton and he plotted treason even if he wasn’t convicted of it by technicality we know damn sure that he was trying to do it. No sympathy whatsoever. His legacy will always be a traitor.
Honestly man, this is great content! I first expected this to be a text to speech bot reading off Wikipedia, but the amount of effort put into this really surprised me. I’ve always been interested into Burr’s fate after the duel, since that’s where his story usually ends. I only really knew he ran away, but I never though it went to this extent. Anyway keep up the good work man.
Nope. I mean, Hamilton was an egotist and often had the subtlety of a bull in a china shop, but he was a fighter for what he thought was right and he would have done his damnedest to nail Burr to the f-ing wall for this BS.
I am researching my family tree. I am related to Aaron Burr he is my 2nd cousin X9 removed! I was so shocked. Burr lost his mind after killed Hamilton. He was such a lost soul he just wanted to make his family proud and have a legacy!!!
Lets be honest here. They would have never been heard of if Eliza didn’t live on to tell their story. The fact that he cheated on her. And she still went on to tell his story. Is crazy. She loved him so much. Eliza is the main course I believe. From all these videos I watched I still believe Eliza is the reason they are known. She didn’t have to go to New York to live on. But she did.
@@ateam404 I'm not saying we would no absolutely nothing I'm saying we wouldn't have none as much as we do because of Eliza, which includes Alexander's childhood
Burr's conspiracy sounds a lot like a DLC case from Ace Attorney "You have no evidence to prove me guilty, hahaha" "Objection! The constants of this letter were actually changed through decyphering"
And I finally feel complete after finding one person in the comment who thought exactly like me before I could, thank you, this absolutely fits AA perfectly, and is the type of revelation Edgeworth or someone would bring last minute, where no one would know the meaning of it but Phenoix (or maybe in later games like Athena) would put together and tear the case apart
I mean... It's true. There's barely any evidence to say he's guilty, so why would you believe it?? All they needed were two witnesses to agree on one thing that had happened at the scene, and they couldn't do that. So there's not much to go off of if you think he is lmao
great care was put into the research of this video, including ironing out discrepancies between sources. Nonetheless, if I come across more accurate information about Burr's life, then I'll edit this comment with corrections EDIT: I forgot to mention this - from what I could gather, Andrew Jackson was of the assumption that the plan was to attack Mexico, not to rebel against the United States. When he discovered that Burr had told others differently, he abandoned the conspiracy.
Thanks for this little video essay! Aaron Burr Jr is a fascinating figure who generously repays further investigation, because his story raises so many questions for which it is hard to see how we will ever establish definitive answers. The Colonel, Senator for New York, and Third Vice President was clearly something of a rogue and a scoundrel, but that does not uniquely distinguish him amongst the milieu of his day, and had circumstances favoured him the history of the earlier US could very easily have taken different paths. Lastly; obviously the musical does much to valorise Hamilton at Burr’s expense as the villain of the piece, though we know that rarely in human affairs are matters ever so one-sided. However, I had read Gore Vidal’s entertaining “Burr: A Novel” many years before the musical came about, so I went in rooting for Burr; I can recommend it as an entertaining look at the ‘other side’ of that famous interview at Weehawken in July 1804 :)
@@nomonomislander5134 ontop of that all burr wantend to do was succeed and hamilton was upset that he took the spot of his father in law burr humbled himself and thought they could still be friends and ontop of that hamilton publicly humiliated burr and took voters away from him but the musical is not about hamilton being the good guy but how your story gets told hamilton wasn't a good person but his story is told like he was and burr was a humble good person but because he didnt die in that duel he is treated as the bad guy.
Burr committed sedition (or at least attempted) not treason. I don’t believe there were laws against this because in baby America the founding fathers expected the people to rise up and reclaim their independence from a potential tyrant as president. Therefore, sedition laws never came into play at all...oh how the times have changed.
Also as it pertains to his other charges, they don’t skip across state lines AND after I believe 7 years the statue of limitations run out. I would assume he utilized hiding for 7 years...so yeah, he totally got away with it and the charges were dropped.
Great content bro! I love history and Hamilton, and I was always interested in what happened afterward. Just stumbled on your channel, and I'm hoping many others will begin to stumble onto it and appreciate it as well!
Hamilton got his son killed getting him into a fatal duel. He also embarrassed his wife exposing his affair. A snob with little humor from what I can gather. Burr had a huge personality
I like scrolling through comments while watching videos but there aren’t many to scroll through on this video. Even though there should be a whole lot because this editing is amazing!
This video came up on my suggested, and I thought I’d give it watch because it’s a history video - and I absolutely love history. Upon finishing the video I liked and subbed. Really well made, well researched, edifying, entertaining!
But if they did we wouldnt have got the sweet satisfaction of watching Burr get beat in the courts by Hamilton('s son) from beyond the grave. Which feels like a far worse punishment to me.
Historian: "BURR vs HAMILTON: (The Duel). Normally, in duels, you walk off ten steps, (which they did), present as low an outline as possible to your opponent, wait for a last-minute apology/concession, then fire at will (flag drop). This evidently went down. The two main eye-witness accounts vary because they were offered later by the two "Seconds" of Burr and Hamilton. It's generally acknowledged that Hamilton fired first - or at least initiated the simultaneous shots. There is further evidence that Hamilton "doctored" the pistols which "he" brought, his having a modified "hair-trigger." Regardless, Hamilton's shot missed Burr, hitting a tree. Hamiltonians would have us believe that it was a "deliberate" miss-shot fired into the air. If this were true, then why did Hamilton put his glasses on before firing his pistol? Burr's shot shattered Hamilton's wrist first then ricocheted into his right-side abdomen piercing his liver. Hamilton's wrist could not have been raised in the air with this result. Dueling was against the law at this time, punishable by death in New York, so the two duelists carried out their archaic settlement on the shores of New Jersey. Interestingly, during this illegal act, Hamilton's Second was District Court "Judge" Nathaniel Pendleton. Hamilton provided the pistols, the same pair used when his son lost his own life in a duel three years earlier - at the same location. Hamilton was not "murdered." He was just a bad shot - even with his glasses on."
Entertaining, no doubt. But very much fiction and speculation. There are many interesting and more well-grounded non-fiction works I'd recommend first. Joseph Wheelan's *Jefferson's Vendetta* (yes, I guess he gives away his conclusion there!), whether its conclusions are correct or not (so much is still so uncertain), is a great counterbalance to the popular "Burr was a traitor but somehow got off" narrative.
I wonder how people will view the attack on the capital. Party lines are making people blind to the blatant treason and inexcusable acts. Funny to see the 3rd president was passing out pardons left and right like our last one.
I’ve barely gotten into the first chapter. But I swear, every time this dude comes up randomly in a show I’m watching I think more and more how bad of a person he was. First I learn about this. And just recently I learned he tricked Hamilton in really big way. Hamilton was worried about manhattan’s drinking water and he struck up a deal with burr where he would get government funding to place pipes up to upper Manhattan where there was a big lake with good water. Burr did as he promised. But he used only like 1/4th of the money to do the pipes, so they were shitty and really cheap. The rest of the money was funneled off so he could try ti create a bank that would rival the national bank. When Hamilton found out, he was furious, but he couldn’t do anything because he signed a contract and burr was technically doing what he was supposed to. That bank wound up thriving, it’s even a modern bank most of us know. And you’ll never guess what it is…… Chase bank!
The musical also doesn't show Hamilton's warmonger phase that got him kicked out of the Adam's Administration more than anything else did. Kind of total glosses over those 4 years.
It wanted to focus more on his personal life, but yes he was quite hawkish. Though, being a small new nation it’s kinda understandable that he’d want to expand it.
@@xXSCDTXx yeah, but wanting to take Louisiana from the French by force while they where distracted is a bit much. We didn't even have the Northwest Territory organized by that point.
A. Ham jr.: mom I got an interesting court case. Eliza: oh really how so.. A. Ham jr.: well it's a women who is devorcing her husband, and she has the same name as you. Eliza: oh..that's not that interesting, A. Ham jr: Mom, you didn't let me finish the man she is devorcing is none other than Aaron Burr. Eliza: OH..DO NOT KILL HIM!!! I REPEAT DO NOT KILL HIM!!
I wasn’t able to find them myself when researching, but this document provides a lot of info about the trial if you’re interested! www.fjc.gov/sites/default/files/trials/burrtrial.pdf
That's what some claim. But note that he was tried and was NOT convicted. And John Marshall (Jefferson's cousin, btw), who is generally rather highly regarded, had much to do with that. So you have to suggest Marshall was also up to something or didn't care about the law. There is also the matter of Jefferson's thinking Burr schemed to take the Presidency from him in 1800, which is quite CONTARARY to the evidence (some key Federalists told Burr they would vote for him if he gave them certain "assurances" -- but he would not, so when Jefferson agreed to, they switched their votes to him! Of course, the main reason Burr was ON the ticket was that J's folks *begged* him to be after he ran such a great slate for the prior year's NY State elections (at that time it was the party in control of NY State that chose the state's electors), that he essentially handed that key state to the party... oh, and in doing so, he outdid fellow New Yorker Hamilton's efforts for the Federalists, which H did not take kindly.)
Thanks for putting together such a thorough video about a complicated man ! Burr had other children two of whom ( that we know of ) were biracial. One of his descendants from this line , Shirley Burr, wrote an excellent book on slavery titled “ Complicated Lives”. She also has an interesting story as to how she discovered she was related to Aaron Burr after the Aaron Burr Soc contacted her repeatedly asking her about her lineage .
There is a fine biography called "Fallen Founder" . the whole conspiracy issue is rather dubious. He was a political enemy of the establishment and his reputation was ruined.
Actually the only letters that said or had anything to do with him committing treason was a letter that General Wilkinson had wrote and this was during Wilkinson’s time as a spy most of this is untrue but this video is still very entertaining
Agreed. ** There was virtually no solid evidence to confirm that Burr committed treason and that's why he was acquitted in his federal trial for treason! Also, one of the only witnesses to testify against Burr to an "overt act of treason," Jacob Allbright, perjured himself in the process.
there was someone else who commented who claimed to be burr's great great great whatever grandson. never thought this video would bring about a family reunion!
While I do think the real life Hamilton made his decision to not choose Burr over Jefferson to be petty towards Burr I think he was right. Burr low key is the main character in the play but a straight up villain irl and although Jefferson was a bad choice in the end Burr may of used his power near the end and succeed with his plan.
What trips me out how i never learned about hamilton. I watched the musical last night and not only did i love it i actually got a enjoyable history lesson. While watching the musical i kept thinking was this from that 90s milk commercial where the guy the curator of the hamilton museum. It's hilarious., it's crazy hamilton really doesn't get any credit. I really wonder why
There are plenty of valid criticisms of Hamilton out there concerning its historical accuracy and framing, but it's a story that (before 2015 anyway) was too often neglected in history classes in my experience. I appreciate Hamilton for at least getting people interested in this period in history, despite the musical's flaws.
@@1C2yt Cynical Historian just came out with a critique of Hamilton in which he points out numerous inaccuracies. (But this non historian found a few inaccuracies in his critique.) But he loves musicals and thoroughly enjoyed much of the play. It is a great jumping off place for further study of the Revolution and the Early Republic.
Wife: "Aaron... I want to get divorced"
Burr: "Fine... Laywer?"
Wife: "Alexander Hamilton.."
Burr: "Oh come on..... What the fu..."
I shouldn't have laughed 😂🤭
The wife hand pick that lawyer lol
I ALMOST SNORTED WHY
As funny and ironic as it is, it isn't actually true. Out of the multiple Burr biographies that I've read (as well as two on his 2nd wife) I've never seen this mentioned. Ron Chernow doesn't cite where he got the information either, so he most likely couldn't verify it (since it's not true) and just... chose to put it in his book anyway.
@@Komaesa oh man, well it's still a funny thing to talk about! thank you for the information though, it's nice to know
He also had a duel with Angelica Schuyler’s husband, they ended with both pistols fired and a hand shake
Burr said not this shit again 😭😭
Oop, he found if he couldn't have Angelina in "the schuyler sisters" he would find a way to get her... in srry XD
Angelica told her husband to go defend the death of the man who she really wished to be her baby daddy🤣🤣🤣.
Yep John Barker Church
Was it before or after the Hamilton duel?
Ohhhhhhhh, so this is what Lin-Manuel was talking about when he said Burr did some crazy shit after he killed Hamilton
Where did he say this?
@@pedromorais6826 in a late show interview
Basically. And the cherry on top of was Alexander Hamilton, Jr., getting revenge on what Burr did to his father was representing Eliza Jumel during their divorce
Lol
I took a trip to Wall Street, I went to Alexander HAMILTONS grave ,IT WAS A WOW MOMENT
Roommate: "Wait, Burr wasn't black?"
Me: 😆
You learn something new everyday!
Well no he's not from a plantation.
is kinda awkward since in that time have slavery of black people😬😬
I thought he was ;-;
@@josepalacios5629 and yeah ;-;
No one can say Aaron Burr and I think of an image of one of his actual portraits all i see is Leslie Odom Jr. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Me to
I think most people do
Me too!
Like who thus guy in the pictures... that's not the burr I know sir lmao
Same lol
My name is Alexander Hamilton Jr. You killed my father. Prepare to get divorced.
A. Ham Jr : Pardon me, are you Aaron Burr, sir?
Burr : That depends who’s- AH!
A. Ham Jr : *Looking exactly like his father*
@@amberrobinson6812 😂
Stop saying that!!
Hamilton: Offer me money.
Burr: Yes all that I have and more!
Hamilton: Offer me land and power in a new empire out west.
Burr: Yes anything you want!
Hamilton: I want my father back you son of b*****!
Frankly, I think this is what "The World was Wide Enough" was really referring to, rather then the duel. By that point in the story, Burr was an old man looking backwards, analyzing his life after his duel with Alexander Hamilton. The words "The World was Wide Enough for Alexander and me"? They were written by Burr himself, long after conspiracy happened.
a fair point. in hindsight, I probably should have given more context to the quote, but I agree with you
Louisiana was wide enough
@@TheOneAndOnlyEmery Louisiana was h u g e
@@LandoBando-pj5ox ikr
The actual quote: “Had I read Sterne mound Voltaire less, I should have known that the world was wide enough for Hamilton and me.”
He wanted to be in the room where it happened yet it ended up with his life getting ruined
s a d
He was better of in the room
I love your pfp! Are you bigender? I think that’s the flag, correct me if I’m wrong
@@evie7215 it’s the gender fluid flag
@@lunarlove2200 thx for letting me know
Nice job A-aron. You done messed up
Its A-A-Ron
Nice reference
A.A. Ron
I have the honour to be your obedient servant - A A dot Burr
insubordinate and churlish…
If hamilton doesnt get a sequel musical about the burr conspiracy i'll be so pissed. This is insane!
That would be interesting for sure!
If you think Burr's character is interesting, then I strongly recommend you also look into the character of Marquis de la Fayette. That man gave zero fucks about authoritian dictatorships/regents. The guy had an amazing life.
Interesting yes, but burrs actions as according to history will still leave him in a bad light...poor guy seems like a screw up with big dreams, I guess they came true just not The way I think he would have imagined...I guess we remember him exactly the way he lived.
Then be pissed? Cause Lin ain't doing it.
@@davidholguin2532 except we dont. I read up a bit on him, and a large portion of what history tells us is... very dubious in a lot of areas.
The things that we do know are real are most of the events happening while Hamilton was alive. Burr was disliked by people, surely.. but people weren't readily or openly slandering him or spreading bad news about him.
His duel with Hamilton, and his public campaign about Jefferson lost him nearly any favor he had both personally (as hamilton's death was considered murder by many) and politically (as Jefferson never trusted Burr again and turned many people against him).
Now... the idea that he wanted to start his own nation, on the one hand it would fit someone as narcissistic.. but it also fits how Jefferson and all his political allies viewed Burr at the time; a traitor willingly to sacrifice everyone for his own gain. When it came down to his conspiracy, nearly everyone who testified against Burr was in some way politically aligned with Jefferson or already anti-Burr.
I mean, he was probably by all rights a scheming character, but looking at some characters from that era.. quite a LOT of them were shady in a lot of ways. And interesting of note: Burr was the only politician in those times to favor the complete emancipation of any and all slaves in the USA, and wanted women to have the right to vote (though admittedly I believe that might be related to him being quite a charmer.. despite being very truthful to his first wife Theodosia)
When listening back to the song dear Theodosia with the context that neither of the children would outlive their fathers is probably the saddest thing ive ever heard
Oh the irony,A.Hamilton.Jr indirectly killed him by helping his wife divorce him
A.HamJr. : Excuse me, are you Aaron Burr, sir?
A.Burr : That depends, who’s aski - *AHH-hah* !!
@@driftingdruid A.Ham Jr. : you killed my father, sir 😐
A.Burr: I should believe you why?
@@elizabethmurphy1734 A. Ham Jr.: sir, my name is alexander hamilton junior, the name describes precisely from whence i came
@@mhmm5264 lmao
Great, thank you! Couldn’t be in the room where it happened, tried to make his own room, failed, ran away to Europe, wasn’t welcome there, came back to NYC, married a woman named Eliza, couldn’t make that work and the divorce was handled by A.Ham Jr. Man could NOT get out of the shadow... again, thanks,
Best comment so far.
A lot of activity in jersey city and burr married at the hermitage on Franklin turnpike in waldwick, nj, open to the public.
Thank you for making this video Aaron Burr is my great great great something Uncle and your video has helped me learn more about my ancestor
that's incredible! I'm glad that you enjoyed it so much!
Hold Up, really?
Wow
Woah, so you’re a Burr, sir?
Well nice to meet u
Let's be real here: Hamilton has one of the most fragile egos and pride I have ever seen.
Ummmm not really i would say yeah that he was prideful but he wasn't egotistical
He wasn't really egotistical, he just can't shut his mouth. He wouldn't have published the Reynolds Pamphlet if he was.
Everyone has it in the 1900 and below 😑
@@0zer018 Having a fragile ego doesn’t equate to being egotistical ’,:)
@@asmodeuslol7904 makes sense, because that's what I'm implying :) Just kinda worded it wrongly.
15:24 The world ain't wide enough for those eyes. My god.
@Isaaq PLEASE
@Isaaq oh wait i didn’t mean to reply to you sorry lol it’s a general “PLEASE”
@@mhmm5264 you can edit the first reply
burr over here looking like a whole goblin
And this stuff doesn’t make it into the history books! I always felt like “Hamilton” painted Burr as a sympathetic character, you’re supposed to feel sorry for him because he could never keep up with Hamilton, and then he laments the fact that he will forever be known as the guy who killed Hamilton. But there’s so much more to the story.
Well it’s important to remember. Lin said himself that the play is not meant to be a documentary or a textbook, it is meant to be entertainment.
@Gee Vee he was wishywashy on remorse. He’s sometimes quoted with the remorse and other times he says shit like, “If the sun hadn’t been in my eyes, I would have shot him in the head.”
@@rowaneditspeppa3361 Just because it doesn’t hit certain points doesn’t make it fictional
Well Hamilton was scum also
This explains why Hamilton endorsed Jefferson, his arch rival, for President. Hamilton, at some point, took a good read of Aaron Burr and what he saw apparently terrified him.
Hamilton, a man of excellent insight and integrity. Too bad he threw away his shot.
Actually, Hamilton’s bullet went over Burr’s shoulder and the bullet landed into a tree a few feet behind Burr
The man really was a good reader.
Raise a glass to freedom bois
@@Zero_Is_Stopping_Time I thought it hit a tree branch directly above burr.
Dude, stop speaking in third person
I guess Burr stop waiting for it.
lol
When you think about it Aaron Burr's life after killing Hamilton went downhill...
It's as the musical said: he might have been the first one to die but I'm the one who paid for it.
Cuz if you think about it he really did pay for it. Karma creeped up on him until his last breath, and nowadays people don't really think that highly of him.
So he really did pay for it even if he did get away with it legally he eventually ended up paying a lot of prices for it.
He deserved everything he got he killed Alexander Hamilton and he plotted treason even if he wasn’t convicted of it by technicality we know damn sure that he was trying to do it. No sympathy whatsoever. His legacy will always be a traitor.
Alexander Hamilton Jr.: "Aaron Burr, sir? I'm Alexander Hamilton, your lawyer".
Aaron Burr: "WHAT!!!"
He was so desperate to be in the room where it happens, that he tried to build his own room... 😂😂😂
Honestly man, this is great content! I first expected this to be a text to speech bot reading off Wikipedia, but the amount of effort put into this really surprised me. I’ve always been interested into Burr’s fate after the duel, since that’s where his story usually ends. I only really knew he ran away, but I never though it went to this extent. Anyway keep up the good work man.
Haha I try to put in a little more effort than just reading off Wikipedia lol. Glad you liked it!
If Hamilton was alive when Burr did this..
wow he would not let that happen
Nope. I mean, Hamilton was an egotist and often had the subtlety of a bull in a china shop, but he was a fighter for what he thought was right and he would have done his damnedest to nail Burr to the f-ing wall for this BS.
The guy would have brought the FULL wrath of America down on him for this XD
@@ms_scribbles Hamilton was an asshole ,Burr is a hero for killing him.
Shakespeare could not have concocted a more poetically tragic tale.
THAT would make for an interesting study... The life of Aaron Burr as Shakespeare might have written it.
I am researching my family tree. I am related to Aaron Burr he is my 2nd cousin X9 removed! I was so shocked. Burr lost his mind after killed Hamilton. He was such a lost soul he just wanted to make his family proud and have a legacy!!!
He’s my cousin 8th removed! Hi cousin! 👋🏼
@@ashiz2ashiz lol
Burr is my first cousin eight removed.
burr is my great grandson
Burr was a busy man.
Lets be honest here. They would have never been heard of if Eliza didn’t live on to tell their story. The fact that he cheated on her. And she still went on to tell his story. Is crazy. She loved him so much. Eliza is the main course I believe. From all these videos I watched I still believe Eliza is the reason they are known. She didn’t have to go to New York to live on. But she did.
They were the secretary of treasury and vice president, im pretty sure they wouldhv been heard of.
@@whatiwriteafterthisismainl7133yea
@@whatiwriteafterthisismainl7133 yeah but we would not have known really anything else or their story if it wasn't for Eliza telling their story
@@AltKaycee we would have known about everything except their personal relationship since she burnt those.
@@ateam404 I'm not saying we would no absolutely nothing I'm saying we wouldn't have none as much as we do because of Eliza, which includes Alexander's childhood
Last time I was this late I wasn't in the room when it happened
Underrated comment right there, sir
5:50 he talked less and smiled more, didn't let them know what he was against or what he was for
Burr's conspiracy sounds a lot like a DLC case from Ace Attorney
"You have no evidence to prove me guilty, hahaha"
"Objection! The constants of this letter were actually changed through decyphering"
And I finally feel complete after finding one person in the comment who thought exactly like me before I could, thank you, this absolutely fits AA perfectly, and is the type of revelation Edgeworth or someone would bring last minute, where no one would know the meaning of it but Phenoix (or maybe in later games like Athena) would put together and tear the case apart
@@ShubhamChatterjee37 Haha, exactly. Happy to help
@@radadic No, thank YOU for this comment, made my day man
I mean... It's true. There's barely any evidence to say he's guilty, so why would you believe it?? All they needed were two witnesses to agree on one thing that had happened at the scene, and they couldn't do that. So there's not much to go off of if you think he is lmao
Summary: No one was perfect in developing the US.
great care was put into the research of this video, including ironing out discrepancies between sources. Nonetheless, if I come across more accurate information about Burr's life, then I'll edit this comment with corrections
EDIT: I forgot to mention this - from what I could gather, Andrew Jackson was of the assumption that the plan was to attack Mexico, not to rebel against the United States. When he discovered that Burr had told others differently, he abandoned the conspiracy.
Oh thank you for clearing that up! 🙂
Thanks for this little video essay! Aaron Burr Jr is a fascinating figure who generously repays further investigation, because his story raises so many questions for which it is hard to see how we will ever establish definitive answers. The Colonel, Senator for New York, and Third Vice President was clearly something of a rogue and a scoundrel, but that does not uniquely distinguish him amongst the milieu of his day, and had circumstances favoured him the history of the earlier US could very easily have taken different paths.
Lastly; obviously the musical does much to valorise Hamilton at Burr’s expense as the villain of the piece, though we know that rarely in human affairs are matters ever so one-sided. However, I had read Gore Vidal’s entertaining “Burr: A Novel” many years before the musical came about, so I went in rooting for Burr; I can recommend it as an entertaining look at the ‘other side’ of that famous interview at Weehawken in July 1804 :)
Andrew Jackson killed one of my ancestors so I don’t like him
Obviously you didn’t do enough research.
Aaron Burr befriended powerful people and bought an island. Sound familiar?
No?
@@productofmud7636 he's referencing Jeffery Epstein
Noah Sabaj huh
@@nomonomislander5134 if you listen to the original obedient servant you can hear that Hamilton provokes burr by making fun if him not having a wife
@@nomonomislander5134 ontop of that all burr wantend to do was succeed and hamilton was upset that he took the spot of his father in law burr humbled himself and thought they could still be friends and ontop of that hamilton publicly humiliated burr and took voters away from him but the musical is not about hamilton being the good guy but how your story gets told hamilton wasn't a good person but his story is told like he was and burr was a humble good person but because he didnt die in that duel he is treated as the bad guy.
Idk why but this would make a great plot for a TV show.
Tbh Alexander’s life was so bad that I was being convinced that it isn’t real
Both Hamilton's and Burrs life was a tragedy.
i will never forget that this man died as soon as he got divorced 💀💀💀
Elisa Jumelle was lowkwy iconic for that layer move
The icing on the cake, the divorce that killed him was done by Alexander's son.
come on Lin manuel, you need to do a musical about aaron burr ...
Would it be called Burr?
@@Ur_local_cryptid Burr: The Musical
he just did its called hamilton. you learned just as much about Bur as Hamilton
Actually, he could call it: The Damn Fool That Shot Him
theres actually a musical called burr, a new musical, made by twisted minds theatre
Around 5 minutes in, I've been to that island several times.
Damn Hamilton made Burr look good in comparison to real life
“Insufficient evidence “ why is that the excuse for letting people get away with stuff?
Burr committed sedition (or at least attempted) not treason. I don’t believe there were laws against this because in baby America the founding fathers expected the people to rise up and reclaim their independence from a potential tyrant as president. Therefore, sedition laws never came into play at all...oh how the times have changed.
Also as it pertains to his other charges, they don’t skip across state lines AND after I believe 7 years the statue of limitations run out. I would assume he utilized hiding for 7 years...so yeah, he totally got away with it and the charges were dropped.
Because it is better to let 9 guilty men go free than let one innocent man be prosecuted.
Innocent until proven guilty?
@@ocsanchez522ify that couldn’t have been the case. Aaron burr killed Alexander Hamilton with witnesses
Great content bro! I love history and Hamilton, and I was always interested in what happened afterward. Just stumbled on your channel, and I'm hoping many others will begin to stumble onto it and appreciate it as well!
thank you so much! a lot of heart went into this one, so I'm just glad that people are actually liking it!
Hamilton got his son killed getting him into a fatal duel. He also embarrassed his wife exposing his affair. A snob with little humor from what I can gather. Burr had a huge personality
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IM DYING AT THE PART WHERE THERE DIVORCE ATTORNEY IS ALEXANDER HAMILTON JR BAHAHAAHAHA
I'm a distant relative of Aaron Burr. My 13th great-grandfather was his first cousin. I'm also a Burr, sir.
Poor Burr😂😂😂 he got brought down by his enemies son!!!!
Yep my son, Alexander Hamilton Jr., was hired to be the lawyer.
love your work, all the way from Dubai! keep up the good work!
never new I had any international fans! thank you so much!
I'm Hercules mulligans great great grandson either on my great grandmas side or my great grandpas side
Weird how invading Mexico was a crime in 1806 but a crime 40 years later at the start of the Mexican-American War.
I like scrolling through comments while watching videos but there aren’t many to scroll through on this video. Even though there should be a whole lot because this editing is amazing!
The love this video has already gotten is more than enough in all honesty. I’m just happy that people have enjoyed it. Thank you for your kind words!
@@1C2yt This showed up on my recommended 9 months later, and I’m happy to say there are enough comments to scroll through now!!
This video came up on my suggested, and I thought I’d give it watch because it’s a history video - and I absolutely love history. Upon finishing the video I liked and subbed. Really well made, well researched, edifying, entertaining!
This means a lot. Glad you enjoyed it, and thanks for sticking around!
Burr done lost his mind after he killed Hamilton 🤣
None of this would have happened if the courts had charged with murder and dealt with him sooner
But if they did we wouldnt have got the sweet satisfaction of watching Burr get beat in the courts by Hamilton('s son) from beyond the grave. Which feels like a far worse punishment to me.
Burr didn’t do anything illegal. It was a duel. Weehawken nj because duels were illegal in ny. The ledge where there dueled is gone.
Historian: "BURR vs HAMILTON: (The Duel). Normally, in duels, you walk off ten steps, (which they did), present as low an outline as possible to your opponent, wait for a last-minute apology/concession, then fire at will (flag drop). This evidently went down. The two main eye-witness accounts vary because they were offered later by the two "Seconds" of Burr and Hamilton. It's generally acknowledged that Hamilton fired first - or at least initiated the simultaneous shots. There is further evidence that Hamilton "doctored" the pistols which "he" brought, his having a modified "hair-trigger." Regardless, Hamilton's shot missed Burr, hitting a tree. Hamiltonians would have us believe that it was a "deliberate" miss-shot fired into the air. If this were true, then why did Hamilton put his glasses on before firing his pistol? Burr's shot shattered Hamilton's wrist first then ricocheted into his right-side abdomen piercing his liver. Hamilton's wrist could not have been raised in the air with this result.
Dueling was against the law at this time, punishable by death in New York, so the two duelists carried out their archaic settlement on the shores of New Jersey. Interestingly, during this illegal act, Hamilton's Second was District Court "Judge" Nathaniel Pendleton. Hamilton provided the pistols, the same pair used when his son lost his own life in a duel three years earlier - at the same location. Hamilton was not "murdered." He was just a bad shot - even with his glasses on."
Excellent, so well done. I recommend Gore Vidal's "Burr", historical fiction deeply researched and a load of fun to read.
Entertaining, no doubt. But very much fiction and speculation. There are many interesting and more well-grounded non-fiction works I'd recommend first. Joseph Wheelan's *Jefferson's Vendetta* (yes, I guess he gives away his conclusion there!), whether its conclusions are correct or not (so much is still so uncertain), is a great counterbalance to the popular "Burr was a traitor but somehow got off" narrative.
Both Burr and Hamilton did some pretty cool stuff and some really stupid stuff.
Pretty much sums up the human condition…
BRUUUHHHHH this history has not aged well over the last month
I wonder how people will view the attack on the capital. Party lines are making people blind to the blatant treason and inexcusable acts. Funny to see the 3rd president was passing out pardons left and right like our last one.
*_T h a n k Y o u_*
*You're Welcome*
Burr: the world aint big enough for the two of us
Jefferson a year later: *doubles the size of the country*
Burr:
Hamilton's ghost:
Burr: Oh f**k No
Eliza: 😐😑
I’ve barely gotten into the first chapter. But I swear, every time this dude comes up randomly in a show I’m watching I think more and more how bad of a person he was. First I learn about this. And just recently I learned he tricked Hamilton in really big way. Hamilton was worried about manhattan’s drinking water and he struck up a deal with burr where he would get government funding to place pipes up to upper Manhattan where there was a big lake with good water. Burr did as he promised. But he used only like 1/4th of the money to do the pipes, so they were shitty and really cheap. The rest of the money was funneled off so he could try ti create a bank that would rival the national bank. When Hamilton found out, he was furious, but he couldn’t do anything because he signed a contract and burr was technically doing what he was supposed to. That bank wound up thriving, it’s even a modern bank most of us know. And you’ll never guess what it is…… Chase bank!
The musical also doesn't show Hamilton's warmonger phase that got him kicked out of the Adam's Administration more than anything else did. Kind of total glosses over those 4 years.
It wanted to focus more on his personal life, but yes he was quite hawkish. Though, being a small new nation it’s kinda understandable that he’d want to expand it.
@@xXSCDTXx yeah, but wanting to take Louisiana from the French by force while they where distracted is a bit much. We didn't even have the Northwest Territory organized by that point.
@@zeanamush that’s fair, Hamilton was obviously a complicated man.
I searched Arron burr to look for the song and accidentally clicked but wasn’t disappointed
Glad you enjoyed!
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This is so appropriate right now and should make us all think. Thanks for posting this!
Gee...never convicted of treason...sounds familiar.
Perhaps never convicted, because he was not actually guilty of it (as Chief Justice John Marshall clearly believed).
BURR WAS A WHITE MAN?!?!? ERRRMERRRGAWD
duuuude your shit rocks. make more stuff like this (im only leaving a comment so this vid gets picked up more in the algorithm, you deserve it)
we'll see if the TH-cam gods are favorable to me. thank you so much!
A. Ham jr.: mom I got an interesting court case.
Eliza: oh really how so..
A. Ham jr.: well it's a women who is devorcing her husband, and she has the same name as you.
Eliza: oh..that's not that interesting,
A. Ham jr: Mom, you didn't let me finish the man she is devorcing is none other than Aaron Burr.
Eliza: OH..DO NOT KILL HIM!!! I REPEAT DO NOT KILL HIM!!
Amazing video, so glad I found your channel today.
Thank you so much!
Lin should make a spin-off about Burr.
Well researched, well produced, and well told. Fascinating, crazy stuff Burr did. Do you know if transcripts of the trial still exist?
I wasn’t able to find them myself when researching, but this document provides a lot of info about the trial if you’re interested! www.fjc.gov/sites/default/files/trials/burrtrial.pdf
Wow he went full villain, seditionist traitor? 😳
That's what some claim. But note that he was tried and was NOT convicted. And John Marshall (Jefferson's cousin, btw), who is generally rather highly regarded, had much to do with that. So you have to suggest Marshall was also up to something or didn't care about the law.
There is also the matter of Jefferson's thinking Burr schemed to take the Presidency from him in 1800, which is quite CONTARARY to the evidence (some key Federalists told Burr they would vote for him if he gave them certain "assurances" -- but he would not, so when Jefferson agreed to, they switched their votes to him!
Of course, the main reason Burr was ON the ticket was that J's folks *begged* him to be after he ran such a great slate for the prior year's NY State elections (at that time it was the party in control of NY State that chose the state's electors), that he essentially handed that key state to the party... oh, and in doing so, he outdid fellow New Yorker Hamilton's efforts for the Federalists, which H did not take kindly.)
Lin-Manuel Miranda really should make a sequel to Hamilton called "Burr"
Hi I just found ur channel 1 hour coz a video got recommended from u.
So ur channel might get a boost by the yt algorithm👍
oh dang, fingers crossed. thanks for stopping by!
The more I learn about American history, the more I am disgusted.
Thanks for putting together such a thorough video about a complicated man ! Burr had other children two of whom ( that we know of ) were biracial. One of his descendants from this line , Shirley Burr, wrote an excellent book on slavery titled “ Complicated Lives”. She also has an interesting story as to how she discovered she was related to Aaron Burr after the Aaron Burr Soc contacted her repeatedly asking her about her lineage .
There is a fine biography called "Fallen Founder" . the whole conspiracy issue is rather dubious. He was a political enemy of the establishment and his reputation was ruined.
this was a great thing to listen to while cooking ngl
as a wise man once said “you are the worst, burr”
**Angry French man noises**
Actually the only letters that said or had anything to do with him committing treason was a letter that General Wilkinson had wrote and this was during Wilkinson’s time as a spy most of this is untrue but this video is still very entertaining
Agreed. ** There was virtually no solid evidence to confirm that Burr committed treason and that's why he was acquitted in his federal trial for treason! Also, one of the only witnesses to testify against Burr to an "overt act of treason," Jacob Allbright, perjured himself in the process.
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I had to make a project about him in that class. Bro was everywhere except the presidency
As burr’s great great great great or whatever grand daughter I appreciate this video.
there was someone else who commented who claimed to be burr's great great great whatever grandson. never thought this video would bring about a family reunion!
Heyo guess we are very loosely related
This video should have more views! Thanks for sharing this and enlightening us.
Interesting find 900 subscribers chanel and such high quality of work. Hope you continue your work. Gl
glad you enjoyed it! thank you so much, it's appreciated
I can tell you if this is true or not
Drop a *Burr-se* ,Burr!
@@tarpan365 Good luck with that, you’re taking a stand. You spit ima sit let’s see where we land.
@@THOSECRAZYREDDITSTORIES Boooo!
Burr, the revolutions imminent what do you stall for?
@@tarpan365 A. Hamilton- if you stand for nothing Burr, what’ll you fall for.
If assassins creed revisited this era burr would be a great Templar
Mr. John Smith Ohio Senator was my GG 6 and was a Master Mason and naively followed Mr. Burr blindly.
Crazy fact: after burr killed Hamilton burr received death threats and people threatened to burn his home down
Oh damn... that’s messed up (on both sides)
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He was told that he'd better hide
It is truly scary how many people get their history from films and musicals. Read old books. Read original documents in archives.
Why did the Hamilton's hate winter?
Because it was: BURR!!!
Ha! Just made it up
He doesn't sound like a trustworthy man.
I received my picture in the mail. Thank you so much that was very kind of you ❤️
While I do think the real life Hamilton made his decision to not choose Burr over Jefferson to be petty towards Burr I think he was right. Burr low key is the main character in the play but a straight up villain irl and although Jefferson was a bad choice in the end Burr may of used his power near the end and succeed with his plan.
Thank you for ruining the plot to the sequel.
Hamilton 2: This time it’s Burr-sonal
ive recently become very interested in american history and this is a great video!!!
"Maybe the world just wasn't wide enough for both Hamilton and Burr"
Camus be like
What trips me out how i never learned about hamilton. I watched the musical last night and not only did i love it i actually got a enjoyable history lesson.
While watching the musical i kept thinking was this from that 90s milk commercial where the guy the curator of the hamilton museum. It's hilarious., it's crazy hamilton really doesn't get any credit. I really wonder why
There are plenty of valid criticisms of Hamilton out there concerning its historical accuracy and framing, but it's a story that (before 2015 anyway) was too often neglected in history classes in my experience. I appreciate Hamilton for at least getting people interested in this period in history, despite the musical's flaws.
@@1C2yt Cynical Historian just came out with a critique of Hamilton in which he points out numerous inaccuracies. (But this non historian found a few inaccuracies in his critique.)
But he loves musicals and thoroughly enjoyed much of the play. It is a great jumping off place for further study of the Revolution and the Early Republic.
These are the kind of videos that should be trending on TH-cam. Not some video about a girl getting pregnant for the third time.
Yikes! Payback for what happened to his father? I think so