Alexander Hamilton Research Paper

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Do you know who Alexander Hamilton was or his dedication to this nation? Alexander has a person who had dedicated so much that he sometimes went days without sleep so we could have a financial system in this world. He was a person who would speak his mind without thinking most of the time which lead to his death. I will talk about him coming to America, in America before war, his life in war life, his life after war , the affairs that he had done, his legacy, and what happened after his death. To begin with Alexander had a hard life before coming to America. Alex had lost his mom before the age of 12 due to an illness that they could not cure because they didn’t have to money for it. After his mother had died he had to start working for the landlord just to get by, his father stopped being present in his life after he was 2. Alexander had one more person in his life and that was his brother James. …show more content…

When the ship had meet the shore he had gone up to Princeton college and had tried to ask if he could graduate in 2 years because he wanted to do what Aaron Burr did and join the war and help. Well that didn’t go as plan when he had ended up punching the bursar of Princeton. After that mishap he went off to find Aaron Burr in the streets of New York and ended up finding him and telling him what had happened at Princeton. Finding out that Burr could not help him get into Princeton he found confusion in advice Burr had. Burr had said just wait and see and be patient but if had known Alexander would have known he would only follow that once in his life and both had got their own form of torture from that advice. When at the pub they had stayed for the moment Alex had meet John Laurens, Hercules Mulligan, and Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier de Lafayette, Marquis de Lafayette or Lafayette for short. He then later got a scholarship to King's College which today is Columbia