He served as an artillery officer and subsequently on the Staff of General Washington. Like the other senior military and political officers of the new country, he risked possible hanging if captured.
Alexander Hamilton lead an assault on a British redoubt at Yorktown.
He resisted the call for a military takeover of the hapless non-government under the Articles of Confederation.
He was a delegate to the Annapolis convention of 1786 and was largely responsible for the federal convention the next year.
On June 18th of the federal convention he launched a strategic assault on the minds of deadlocked delegates. His all day speech in support of a parliamentary system as an alternative to the Randolph and Paterson Plans shocked his fellow delegates into making the decision to dump the Articles of Confederation and design a new plan of government.
As the motive force behind The Federalist, he defended the Constitution, primarily against NY Governor George Clinton, whose state stood to lose lucrative impost revenue.
As Treasury Secretary he steered the nation from the brink of ruin to a sound financial basis.
It is fair to say that absent the efforts of Alexander Hamilton, the Confederation United States would have soon dissolved with nothing to replace it.
And the North American continent would have probably go the way of South America. A region of squabbling, occasionally at war, manipulated by outsiders nation-states.
I appreciate your post, but I get the distinct impression it isn’t really a desirable point of view for this type of thread.
These threads remind me somewhat of a “Two Minutes Hate” with Alexander Hamilton playing the part of Emmanuel Goldstein.
Needless to say, I agree completely with you on this. Hamilton would be appalled at the Federal Government and the out of control spending we have today. He believed in strong federal government, but not an all powerful and bloated federal government.