![]() ![]() ![]() Distinguishing himself at the Battles of Long Island, White Plains, and Trenton in 1776, he becomes Washington’s aide-de-camp, with the rank of lieutenant colonel, in March 1777 - a position he holds for four years.He raises the New York Provincial Company of Artillery and is elected captain (1775). ![]() Enrolling in King’s College (now Columbia University) in 1774, Hamilton never graduates he leaves to fight Great Britain.Born out-of-wedlock to James Hamilton and Rachel Faucett Lavien, his political enemies would never let him forget that he was illegitimate.(Hamilton claimed that he was born in 1757, but most historians now believe that he shaved two years off his age - possibly to make himself more attractive for an apprenticeship.) Hamilton is born on the West Indian Island of Nevis, probably in 1755.Buried in the churchyard at Trinity Church, New York. ![]()
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