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Could Modern Doctors Have Saved Alexander Hamilton? Weehawken Needed a Helipad and a Better Sense of Humour

A dawn duel on a New Jersey ledge, a rowing boat across the Hudson and an argument about who fired first that has outlived everyone involved WEEHAWKEN, NEW JERSEY, 11 July 1804 – Alexander Hamilton, the first Treasury Secretary of the United States and a man who wrote more words before breakfast than most of his rivals managed in a year, was shot by the sitting Vice President on a…