Hamilton left Washington’s staff in March 1781 after a dispute with the general and out of frustration with his lack of field command. She was the daughter of Philip Schuyler, who had served as a major general in the Continental Army and was one of the wealthiest men in New York. While Washington’s aide, Hamilton wed Elizabeth Schuyler, on December 14, 1780. Washington and Hamilton from Mount Vernon on Vimeo. For the next four years, Hamilton was one of Washington’s most valued staff members, and had a variety of responsibilities, including writing letters to Congress, state politicians, and other Continental Army officers. On January 25, 1777, the Pennsylvania Evening Post posted an advertisement: “Captain Alexander Hamilton, of the New-York company of artillery, by applying to the printer of this paper, may hear of something to his advantage.” 1 This referenced General George Washington’s decision to invite Hamilton to his military staff, which Hamilton accepted, making him a lieutenant colonel. The young captain impressed senior officers in the Continental Army, and William Alexander (Lord Stirling) even asked Hamilton to serve as his military aide.

In the American Revolutionary War, he fought at the battles of Kip’s Bay, White Plains, Trenton, and Princeton. In 1775, Hamilton drilled with a volunteer company of militia, and was made captain of an artillery company in March 1776. He wrote several pamphlets in 17 attacking the views of outspoken loyalist Samuel Seabury. While in New York, Hamilton became a supporter of colonial protests against British imperial policy. Hamilton arrived in mainland America in late 1772 and initially applied to the College of New Jersey (modern Princeton), but instead attended King’s College in New York City. Locals recognized Hamilton’s remarkable intelligence after he published an eloquent letter describing a hurricane that hit the island, and raised money to send him to school in Britain’s North American colonies. Hamilton spent his adolescence on the Danish possession of St. James abandoned the family in 1766 and Rachel died in 1768.

His parents, Rachel Faucette and James Hamilton, were not married when he was born. Hamilton was born on January 11, in 1755 or 1757 at Charlestown, on the British island of Nevis. He was the founder and chief architect of the American financial system. Alexander Hamilton was a founding father of the United States, who fought in the American Revolutionary War, helped draft the Constitution, and served as the first secretary of the treasury.

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