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Aaron Burr, the Third U.S. Vice President, 1801–05 (John Vanderlyn, 1802) Burr portrays the eponymous anti-hero as a fascinating and honorable gentleman, and portrays his contemporary opponents as mortal men; thus, George Washington is an incompetent military officer, a general who lost most of his battles; Thomas Jefferson is a fey, especially dark and pedantic hypocrite who schemed and ...
My Theodosia is a novel written by the American author Anya Seton which was first published in 1941.. It is a fictional interpretation of the life of Theodosia Burr Alston, set against a historical background of Aaron Burr's Vice Presidency of the United States, and his subsequent years.
Burr is portrayed as extremely remorseful about the duel and well aware that his legacy has been tarnished. Descendants of Burr and Hamilton held a re-enactment of the duel near the Hudson River for the duel's bicentennial in 2004. Douglas Hamilton, fifth great-grandson of Alexander Hamilton, faced Antonio Burr, a descendant of Aaron Burr's cousin.
The protagonist is a young US Army lieutenant, Philip Nolan, who develops a friendship with the visiting Aaron Burr. When Burr is tried for treason, [n 1] Nolan is tried as an accomplice. During his testimony, he bitterly renounces his nation and, "in an intemperate outburst" [2] shouts . Damn the United States!
Burr adopted two sons, Aaron Columbus Burr and Charles Burdett, during the 1810s and 1820s after the death of his daughter Theodosia. Aaron (born Aaron Burr Columbe) was born in Paris in 1808 and arrived in America around 1815, and Charles was born in 1814. [89] [109] [110] Both of the boys were reputed to be Burr's biological sons. A Burr ...
Though Burr (1973) is the second book published in the series, it is first chronologically, taking place in 1775–1808, 1833–1836, and 1840. [2] [3] In the novel, set during the politically contentious era of the Jackson administration, an elderly and active Aaron Burr recounts his experiences of the Revolutionary War and America's Founding Fathers to a young law clerk secretly working for ...
The Burr conspiracy of 1805-1807, was a treasonous plot alleged to have been planned by American politician and former military officer Aaron Burr (1756-1836), in the years during and after his single term as third Vice President of the United States (1801-1805), during the presidential administration and first term of the third President ...
James Parton (February 9, 1822 – October 17, 1891) was an English-born American biographer who wrote books on the lives of Horace Greeley, Aaron Burr, Andrew Jackson, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Voltaire, and contributed three biographies to Eminent Women of the Age. [1]