After being given news of the battle of Lexington and Concord‚ Alexander Hamilton began to prepare for the war. With an old friend Robert Troup and other King’s College men‚ Hamilton formed a volunteer musket drill unit and‚ with the assistance of some of his veteran professors‚ trained a group of young college boys to shoot and fight. Hamilton also began studying artillery with the help from his math professor. Alexander and his volunteers had their first military action on the night of August 23
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Alexander Hamilton; a man that’s known mostly for being the main character of the musical of the same name‚ being on the ten dollar bill‚ and writing fifty-one of the eighty-five Federalist Papers. When one thinks of him‚ more often than not‚ one of these three things will come to mind‚ or some combination of the three. But‚ really‚ he did so much more than that in his surprisingly not-so-well known occupation; that being‚ being the first Secretary of the Treasury. In his time in office‚ he introduced
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to be reflecting the weather. The only sounds are of the soft plops of oars in the waters of the Hudson and the occasional sounds of exertion from the rowers. Aaron Burr’s face is set in a frown and his boat full of men is riddled with tension. Alexander Hamilton is going to die today. Once Burr’s boat is docked on the shore of the Heights of Weehawken‚ the set duelling ground‚ they sit and wait. Hamilton’s boat arrives just before seven‚ the rays of the sun following his back as his crew docks
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his wife‚ Harriet. Mitchell. William Lendrum "Billy" Mitchell grew up on an estate near Milwaukee‚ Wisconsin. Alexander Mitchell‚ his grandfather‚ was one of the wealthiest people in Wisconsin for his generation and established what became the Milwaukee Road along with Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company. Mitchell Park and the street Mitchell Boulevard were named in honor of Alexander. Billy Mitchell was the eldest of ten‚ and coming from a wealthy family he attended Columbian College (now George
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Alexander Fleming Biography… Fleming was born on 6 August 1881 at Lochfield a farm near Darvel in East Ayrshire Scotland. After the war Fleming actively searched for anti-bacterial agents‚ having witnessed the death of many soldiers from septicemia resulting from infected wounds. Unfortunately antiseptics killed the patients’ immunological defences more effectively than they killed the invading bacteria. In an article he submitted for the medical journal The Lancet during World War I‚ Fleming described
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Students in a normal high school setting might not know of a culture and hit that is played out now in the Richard Rodgers Theatre. The show is about American history and about the life of Alexander Hamilton. Hamilton is an American musical that should be used as a history lesson for high school students. With all the education material out there I found something that was very interesting to why this show has as an educational took. Educational work Magazine tell us this “the decline
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After creating a Bill of Rights‚ the new United States congress turned its focus to the issue of financing the new government. Alexander Hamilton was hired to be the Treasury Secretary by president George Washington. Hamilton made it his duty to develop an economic structure for the United States that would ensure public confidence in the government’s financial affairs. Hamilton didn’t want to implement the constitution verbatim rather using the loose interpretation of it. He believed that a solid
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autocratic rule.” To what extent do you agree with this point of view? Tsar Alexander II had many reforms. He was an autocratic ruler who began his reforms in Russia in 1855. Some claim that his reforms were proof of his liberal attitude and others argue that he was primarily a traditionalist‚ this essay will explore to what extent both of arguments are accurate depictions of “The last great tsar.” When Alexander II came to power he was already faced with a series of problems‚ the Crimean war
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Title: Was Alexander the Great truly “Great” Date Due: 24/09/09 Date Submitted: 24/09/09 Alexander the Great‚ the ancient King of Macedonia is renowned for his conquests of Persia and India. The definition of the term ‘Great’ in such a context is to be distinguished or famous‚ highly skilled‚ of official position or social status‚ and exceptionally outstanding. The term ‘Great’ is an appropriate entitlement for Alexander‚ justified in many ways by his incredible successful war accomplishments
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Alexander Graham Bell Alexander Graham Bell was born on March 3rd‚1847 in Edinburgh‚ Scotland and died 75 years later in Nova Scotia‚ Canada on August 2nd‚ 1922. He is well known as the inventor of the telephone and had many other inventions as well. His mother and wife were both deaf and were very inspiring to him. His mother was a pianist despite her deafness. Alexander’s grandfather also influenced him greatly. He was a known professor and taught elocution. Alexander Graham Bell created
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