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Alexander Hamilton A life of bold finance and statecraft
The article narrates Alexander Hamilton’s rise from a West Indian clerk to a pivotal Federalist leader. It covers his early precocity in St Croix, education in New York and New Jersey, military service under Washington, key roles in drafting and defending the Constitution, creation of the funding system and the national bank, his factional battles with Jefferson, and his death after a duel with Aaron Burr.
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West India Islands
St. Croix
Nicholas Cruger
Crnger
Ned
Alexander Hamilton
West India
Nevis
James Hamilton
Hamilton
Cruger
Pope
Plutarch
New England
Boston
New York
New Jersey
Princeton College
King’s College
Battery
Justin
Peared
Congress
Patriot Party
Booy
Concorde
Lexington
Bunker Hill
Washington
Cambridge
Green
Long Island
Hudson
Jerseys
Trenton
Princeton
Yorktown
Elizabeth Schuyler
General Schuyler
Cornwallis
Robert Morris
Secretary of the Treasury
United States
Annapolis
Philadelphia
Madison
Jay
Publias
Friends of the Constitution
The
United
North Carolina
Iar
Jefferson
National Bank
Treasury
France
Pennsylvania
Paris
Adams
England
John Adams
Sapavet
Duane
Union
Aaron Burr
Thos
Burr
Marshall
Army
Navy
Department of Justice
Law and Order