Hamilton Historical Facts(Including Pictures, Comics, Drawings, etc.)

Today(September 11th, 2018)

Now today also marks a particular tragedy in American history. As you all probably now today is the anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the Freedom Towers located in Manhattan, New York. If you have a friend of loved one that had to witness/go through that harsh time please do send my regards... I know someone who watched it all from his work on Wall Street and had inhaled the smoke and debris...

What stands today.

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The Battle of Brandywine, 1777

In this specific battle, a certain young Frenchman had joined with the American forces for the very first time. He was called the Marquis de Lafayette.

^(taken from the Wikipedia)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Brandywine

"The Battle of Brandywine, also known as the Battle of Brandywine Creek, was fought between the American Continental Army of General George Washington and the British Army of General Sir William Howe on September 11, 1777. The "Redcoats" of the British Army defeated the American rebels in the Patriots' forces and forced them to withdraw northeast toward the American capital and largest city of Philadelphia where the Second Continental Congress had been meeting since 1775. The engagement occurred near Chadd's Ford, Pennsylvania during Howe's campaign to take Philadelphia, part of the American Revolutionary War(1775-1783). More troops fought at Brandywine than any other battle of the . It was also the longest single-day battle of the war, with continuous fighting for 11 hours."

"Howe's army departed from Sandy Hook, New Jersey across New York Bay from the occupied town of New York City on the southern tip of Manhattan Island, on July 23, 1777, and landed near present-day Elkton, Maryland, at the point of the "Head of Elk" by the Elk River at the northern end of the Chesapeake Bay, at the southern mouth of the Susquehanna River. Marching north, the British Army brushed aside American light forces in a few skirmishes. General Washington offered battle with his army posted behind Brandywine Creek-off the Christina River. While part of his army demonstrated in front of Chadd's Ford, Howe took the bulk of his troops on a long march that crossed the Brandywine far beyond Washington's right flank. Due to poor scouting, the Americans did not detect Howe's column until it reached a position in rear of their right flank. Belatedly, three divisions were shifted to block the British flanking force at Birmingham Friends Meetinghouse and School, a Quaker meeting house."

"After a stiff fight, Howe's wing broke through the newly formed American right wing which was deployed on several hills. At this point Lieutenant General Wilhelm von Knyphausen attacked Chadds Ford and crumpled the American left wing. As Washington's army streamed away in retreat, he brought up elements of General Nathanael Greene's division which held off Howe's column long enough for his army to escape to the northeast. Polish General Casimir Pulaski defended Washington's rear assisting in his escape. The defeat and subsequent maneuvers left Philadelphia vulnerable. The British captured the city two weeks later on September 26, beginning an occupation that would last nine months until June 1778."

As you can see, Lafayette had injured his leg during the battle. Washington approaches and comforts him.

Hamilton appointed as the Secretary of the Treasury, 1789

(from the Wikipedia)

"President George Washington appointed Hamilton as the first United States Secretary of the Treasury on September 11, 1789. He left office on the last day of January 1795. Much of the structure of the government of the United States was worked out in those five years, beginning with the structure and function of the cabinet itself. Biographer Forrest McDonald argues that Hamilton saw his office, like that of the British First Lord of the Treasury, as the equivalent of a Prime Minister. Hamilton oversaw his colleagues under the elective reign of George Washington. Washington requested Hamilton's advice and assistance on matters outside the purview of the Treasury Department. In 1791, while Secretary, Hamilton was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.[95] Hamilton submitted various financial reports to Congress. Among these are the First Report on the Public Credit, Operations of the Act Laying Duties on Imports, Report on a National Bank, On the Establishment of a Mint, Report on Manufactures, and the Report on a Plan for the Further Support of Public Credit.[96] So, the great enterprise in Hamilton's project of an administrative republic is the establishment of stability."

How elegant.