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« on: May 03, 2018, 01:13:50 PM »
« edited: May 03, 2018, 04:14:37 PM by True Federalist »

What if Aaron Burr had missed Alexander Hamilton  

Burr killed Hamilton with his first shot. What if he had missed? What would have happened?

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« Reply #1 on: May 03, 2018, 06:54:30 PM »

It's unlikely that Hamilton could have won the election of 1808 under any circumstances and even less likely he could have had a Federalist Congress to deal with. As for Hamilton cancelling the Embargo, the Embargo Act already had been in OTL by the time Madison took office and replaced with the Non-Intercourse Act.  Also the author of that linked article is making some extremely crazy assumptions in my opinion.  Hamilton was an Anglophile and his Napoleonic complex would have more likely to have driven him to oppose Napoleon, not join in with him.  Invading Spanish Florida rather than Canada would have been both more likely and more in keeping with the capabilities of the U.S. military of the time.  A truly professional U.S. Army would have been at least a decade in the making, especially in peacetime.
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« Reply #2 on: May 09, 2018, 01:48:33 PM »

What if Aaron Burr had missed Alexander Hamilton  

Burr killed Hamilton with his first shot. What if he had missed? What would have happened?

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Question, why is it TF.
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« Reply #3 on: May 09, 2018, 09:10:12 PM »

What if Aaron Burr had missed Alexander Hamilton  

Burr killed Hamilton with his first shot. What if he had missed? What would have happened?

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Question, why is it TF.

TF is short for True Federalist. When I edit a post for moderation reasons, I include that to distinguish my comment as to why I made an edit  from the post the original poster made. As for why it's copyright infringement, you quoted the entirety of Thomas Fleming's article on HNN. Since he died last year, I think I can be fairly certain you're not him.
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« Reply #4 on: May 10, 2018, 04:11:21 AM »

Neither of them would ever have become president anyway.
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« Reply #5 on: May 10, 2018, 05:29:06 AM »

What if Aaron Burr had missed Alexander Hamilton  

Burr killed Hamilton with his first shot. What if he had missed? What would have happened?

TF - edited for copyright infringement
Question, why is it TF.

TF is short for True Federalist. When I edit a post for moderation reasons, I include that to distinguish my comment as to why I made an edit  from the post the original poster made. As for why it's copyright infringement, you quoted the entirety of Thomas Fleming's article on HNN. Since he died last year, I think I can be fairly certain you're not him.
Okay just asking, thanks for the explanation.
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