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hamilton is the story of America’s Founding Father<br />
Alexander <strong>Hamilton</strong>, an immigrant from the West Indies who became<br />
George Washington’s right-hand man during the Revolutionary War,<br />
and was the new nation’s first Treasury Secretary.<br />
1768<br />
Mother dies; <strong>Hamilton</strong> begins<br />
clerking in St Croix.<br />
1766<br />
Father abandons family.<br />
1765<br />
<strong>Hamilton</strong>’s family moves to the<br />
Caribbean island St Croix.<br />
Stamp Act: Congress protests first direct<br />
British tax, setting up a model for the<br />
future Continental Congress.<br />
history has it<br />
1757<br />
Alexander <strong>Hamilton</strong><br />
born out of wedlock on the<br />
British island of Nevis (in the<br />
Caribbean) and later orphaned.
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