 When I say woe, I mean woe! On July 11, 1804, the third Vice President of the United States met with the former First Secretary of the Treasury in Weehawken, New Jersey. The two men had once been friendly towards each other, but politics turned them into enemies. And they met that day in Weehawken, not to bury the hatchet, but to bury each other. You see, this was the day of the famous duel between Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton.