Aaron Burr

:Alternate meaning: Rev. Aaron Burr, Sr.

Later life

By this point all of Burr's hopes for a political comeback had been dashed, and he fled America and his creditors for Europe, where he tried to regain his fortunes. He lived abroad from 1808 to 1812, passing most of his time in England, Scotland, Denmark, Sweden and France. He tried to secure aid in the prosecution of his filibustering schemes but was met with numerous rebuffs. He was ordered out of England and Napoleon Bonaparte refused to receive him. He had numerous affairs.

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Europe - 1808 - 1812 - England - Scotland - Denmark - Sweden - Filibuster - Napoleon Bonaparte

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He returned quietly to New York in 1812, intending to visit his daughter, but the ship she had been traveling on from South Carolina was lost at sea (either due to piracy or shipwreck), along with all of Burr's important papers. Burr lived in New York as a moderately successful attorney until his death in a Port Richmond, Staten Island, New York hotel in 1836. He maintained an interest in Western expansion until his death, and lived to see the Texas Revolution. He noted with pleasure: "What was treason in me thirty years ago, is patriotism now."

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1812 - South Carolina - Piracy - New York - Attorney - Port Richmond - Staten Island - 1836 - Texas Revolution - Patriotism

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