Identifier: centurybookoffam00broo2 (find matches)
Title: The Century book of famous Americans : the story of a young people's pilgrimage to historic homes
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Brooks, Elbridge Streeter, 1846-1902
Subjects: Historic buildings -- United States United States -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York : Century Co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ALEXANDER HAMILTON.From the painting by Trumbull, 1792 ; now owned by the New York Chamber of Commerce. When war really came, Hamilton enlisted at once. He led an artillery com-pany at the battle of Long Island, and soon attracted the attention of Wash-ington, who added him to his staff as an aide-de-camp. He fought throughthe Revolution, led the last charge at Yorktown, where Cornwallis surren-dered, and came out of it all as Colonel Hamilton, aged twenty-five. My, though ! he was a smart one, was nt he ? said M.arian. Yes ; he mio-ht have been a great soldier and a famous one, said Uncle £> O 6o THE. CENTURY BOOK OF FAMOUS AMERICANS
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Tom, it he had not made astill higher record as a states-man. He had a remarkablemind, you understand, and saw,even before older and more ex-perienced men recognized it,the need of something reliableand binding if the Colonies o were to be a real nation. Whenhe was twenty-four,. in a letterto a friend, he outlined manyot the provisions that, sevenyears later, found place in theConstitution. I remember the man in theState Department told us that,said Bert. Great, was ntit? I tell you, Alexander wasquite a boy, Jack declaredimpressively. ONE RESULT OF HAMILTONS IMPROMPTU SPEECH.Tearing down the Kings arms. IN THE NATIONS FIRST CAPITAL 61 After the Revolution, continued Uncle Tom, Hamilton began busi-ness as a lawyer here in New York, but gave up his practice to go toCongress, and, later, to become a member of the convention that drafted andadopted the new Constitution of the United States, of which, as I have said,he was largely the father and framer. When the new nation was fairly onit

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