The Life Of Alexander Hamilton
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Before earning such a glowing acclamation from the French statesman,
Alexander Hamilton would have a rocky road to travel. He was most likely
born on the island of Nevis in the British West Indies in 1755. The exact
date of his birth is unknown, and even his year of birth is an item of
dispute amo ....
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.... her youngest son as clerk and
bookkeeper. It was in his mother's store that Hamilton got his first taste
of finance; it was also in that high-visibility capacity that he probably
became the target of malicious whispers, or perhaps even outward disdain
from the townspeople he encountered. Rachel's husband, who had had her
imprisoned in Christiansted some years before for adultery, had posted a
public summons for her to appear before a divorce court, declaring her a
whore who had given birth to i ....
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