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George I. Eacker (c. 1774 – January 4, 1804) was a New York lawyer. He is best known for having fatally shot Philip Hamilton , the eldest son of Alexander Hamilton and Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton , in a duel on November 23, 1801, in Weehawken , New Jersey.
Nov 27, 2012 · While Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr's 1804 duel is notorious in history and pop culture, a lesser-known deadly duel occurred three years earlier between Hamilton's oldest son, Philip, and George Eacker, a critic of Hamilton and supporter of Burr.
Hamilton’s 19-year-old son Philip was killed in a duel near present-day Jersey City in November 1801 that had resulted from Philip’s conflict with George Eacker, a Democratic-Republican who maligned Philip’s father in a speech.
The Hamilton-Eacker duel was a duel between Philip Hamilton and George Eacker that took place in 1801. Due to Hamilton's close friend's failure in his duel with Eacker, Hamilton took it up to challenge Eacker himself after the man publicly degraded Philip's family name and reputation.
Sep 14, 2023 · Alexander Hamilton's son Philip Hamilton was just 19 when he was shot by George Eacker in a duel in New York in 1801. He died 14 hours later. Three years before Alexander Hamilton died in his infamous duel in 1804, his son Philip Hamilton died in the same way at only 19.
Sep 27, 2018 · George Eacker was a wealthy young New York attorney best known for shooting Philip Hamilton in a duel. Eacker himself would tragically die young after falling ill with consumption. Palatine, New York had only recently been settled by German immigrants when the Revolutionary War broke out.
There they spotted a 27-year-old Republican lawyer named George Eacker. Four months earlier, Eacker had given a speech suggesting that Alexander Hamilton wanted to use the U.S. Army, of which...
May 27, 2017 · Considered the jewel of his family, the “eldest and brightest hope,” Philip Hamilton rushed to his father’s defense on November 23, 1801 to duel Republican lawyer George I. Eacker in Paulus Hook, New Jersey.
Jun 23, 2020 · On November 20, 1801, 19-year-old Philip Hamilton and his friend Richard Price had a run-in with a young lawyer named George I. Eacker at Manhattan's Park Theatre. A supporter of Thomas...
George I. Eacker and Alexander Hamilton's son Philip duel at Weehawken. Eacker, a 27-year-old lawyer, had made a speech accusing Alexander Hamilton of being willing to overthrow Thomas...
