What the title says. After all, many duels were(happily)bloodless affairs with neither
participant being hurt or killed. Suppose, say, somehow Burr does get a twinge of
conscience & NOT shoot to kill? Or Hamilton
does hit Burr, incapacitating him for any further action that fateful day, but Burr does
later recover & not die?(Gore Vidal’s classic historical novel BURR declares that, contrary to most historical accounts, Hamilton act-
ually fired first but hit not Burr but a tree branch). So after this duel what would then
happen to its two participants? And how
would American history be changed(if @ all?)