"One of Burr’s most ingenious gambits, the Manhattan Company helped break the political stranglehold with which Hamilton’s Federalist Party controlled the city, and thereby made the election of a Republican president, Thomas Jefferson (not to mention his Republican vice president, Burr), possible. The outfit later became Chase Manhattan bank."
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“Duel With the Devil”: Murder in Old New York
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Before their fatal duel, Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr teamed up in court to save a man from the gallows