Tag: Alexander Hamilton
Today’s post is by Dr. Greg Bradsher. Englishman Nicholas Cresswell, during July 1777, wrote in his journal that the American army was composed of a “ragged Banditti of undisciplined people, the scum and refuse of all nations of earth.” Baron Curt von Stedingk, a Swedish colonel in French service, described the American army in Savannah [...]
Posted by Guest Blogger on January 8, 2013, under History.
Tags: African Americans, Alexander Hamilton, American Revolution, American War for Independence, Baron Curt von Stedingk, Bernard Bailyn, Boston, Bunker Hill, Cambridge, Colonel John Laurens, Congress, Connecticut, Continental Army, George Washington, Greg Bradsher, Lexington, Nicholas Cresswell, Rhode Island, slaves, South Carolina, Virginia, Whigs Comments: 3
Today’s post is written by Monique Politowski, and is part of her ongoing series on the Federalists. Today is the 238th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party. On December 16, 1773, men dressed as Native Americans and wearing disguises, destroyed British owned tea by throwing it into the water of Griffin’s Wharf in Boston. Archives II has [...]
Posted by Monique Politowski on December 16, 2011, under Archives II, Civil Records, Military Records.
Tags: Alexander Hamilton, American Revolution, Boston Harbor, Boston Tea Party, Coercive Acts, federalism, First Continental Congress, George Washington, John Jay, Monique Politowski, Nathanael Greene Comments: 2
Today’s post is written by Monique Politowski, and is part of her ongoing series on the Federalists. It must have been weird for the readers of the New York Independent Journal to see an essay supposedly written by a long since dead Roman. Hamilton, Jay, and Madison all used the pseudonym “Publius,” intentionally becoming the [...]
Posted by Monique Politowski on October 31, 2011, under Archives I, Civil Records, Outside NARA.
Tags: Alexander Hamilton, Articles of Confederation, Constitutional Convention, federalism, Federalist Papers, Federalists, James Madison, John Jay, John Lansing Jr., Judicial Branch, Monique Politowski, Publius, RG 360, Robert Yates, Supreme Court Comments: 1
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