Jackson

             Alexander Hamilton was born on the West Indian Island of Nevis on January 11,1757, but
             research now indicates that he was born at least two years earlier in 1755. He was the son of James
             Hamilton(1752-99), a Scottish trader, and Rachel Faucett Lavien (1729-69). After his mothers death and
             his fathers bankruptcy in 1769, at age eleven he entered the countinghouse of David Beckman and
             Nicholas Cruger at Saint Croix. There he presented the ability to comprehend the complexities of
             commerce and accounting. At the age of fifteen, with the help of friends and family to help pay to further
             his education, he studied at a grammar school at Elizabeth, N.J., and the attended King's College now
             Hamilton's first public act for the revolutionary movement was in 1774 at a meeting held in the
             "fields" now known as City Hall Park in New York City. Hamilton defended the Boston Tea Party and
             influenced the callings for the democratically chosen delegates to the First Continental Congress. In the
             winter of 1774-75, he wrote anonymously two pamphlets, A Full Vindication of the Measures of Congress
             from the Calumnies of their Enemies and The Farm Refuted, signed in answer to the Loyalists pamphlets
             "Westchester Farmer". Yet Hamilton still did not consider himself as a revolutionary. Recently after the
             war began, Hamilton joined the New York militia, and in 1775 he became a captain of the New York
             Artillery. He served in the battles of Long Island, White Plains, Trenton, and Princeton. After two years
             of combat, General Nathanael Greene introduced him to Commander-in-Chief, George Washington. In
             1777 Washington invited him to become his aide-de-camp and personal secretary. While he held this
             position he became aware of the economic and political troubles that were holding the American Army's
             ability to carry out war and of the Continental Congress's ability in managin...

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