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If you paid attention in US History class in high school— or if, like me, you’re Hamilton Trash— then you know about the fateful duel between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr. They met in Weehawken, New Jersey, in the early morning hours of July 11th, 1804, to settle their differences with pistols. Some accounts of the story hold that Hamilton fired his shot in the air, a way for (supposedly) some combatants to fulfill the terms of the duel and keep their honor intact without actually killing anybody.