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Alexander Hamilton and the Creation of the United States

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Status Report on the Soldiers in Hamilton's New York Artillery Company, 1776 (Gilder Lehrman Collection)

Hamilton began his military career as a volunteer when he was a student at King's (now Columbia) College. Later promoted to Captain, he fought bravely even as the American forces were driven out of Manhattan and across New Jersey to Valley Forge.

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