Our first century: being a popular descriptive portraiture of the one hundred great and memorable events of perpetual interest in the history of our country, political, military, mechanical, social, scientific and commercial: embracing also delineations of all the great historic characters celebrated in the annals of the republic; men of heroism, statesmanship, genius, oratory, adventure and philanthropy . as observed, too, that hepaid no attention to Hamiltons conversa-tion, nor, indeed, looked toward him. untilhe struck up his song, when ]>iur turnedtowanl him, and, leaning ujxin the tabl
Our first century: being a popular descriptive portraiture of the one hundred great and memorable events of perpetual interest in the history of our country, political, military, mechanical, social, scientific and commercial: embracing also delineations of all the great historic characters celebrated in the annals of the republic; men of heroism, statesmanship, genius, oratory, adventure and philanthropy . as observed, too, that hepaid no attention to Hamiltons conversa-tion, nor, indeed, looked toward him. untilhe struck up his song, when ]>iur turnedtowanl him, and, leaning ujxin the table,looked at the singer until the song wasdone. The fatal morning came. Colonel Burrarrived first on the ground, as had beenpreviously agreed. He deliberately tookoff his coat, surveyed the ground, andthen cleared away the bushes, limbs oftrees, etc. When General Hamilton ar-rived, the parties exchanged salutations,and the seconds proceeded to make theirarrangements. They measured the dis-tance, full ten ])aces, and cast lots for thechoice of position, as also to determine bywhom the word should be given, biith ofwhich fell to the seconds of then proceeded to load the pistols ineach others presence, after which theparties took their stations. The gentleman who was to give theword now explained to the parties therules which were to govern them in firing, GREAT AND MEMORABLE EVENTS. 193. SCENE OF THE BURR AXD HAMILTON DUEL, WEEHAWKEN. which were as follows : The parties beingplaced at their stations, the second whogives the word shall ask them whetherthey are readj; being answered in theaffirmative, he shall say Present; afterthis, the parties shall present and tirewhen they please. If one fiies beforethe other, the opposite second shall saj,One, two, three, fire ;—and he shall thenfire, or lose his fire. He then asked ifthey were prepared; being answered inthe affirmative, he gave the word Present,as had been agreed on, and both partiespresented and fired in succ
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