I don’t now a lot about Hamilton but I will say that we can say the rebellion hung by a thread many times and could have failed dozens of times but for divine intervention.
The John Adams story is one that I know well and one could say that it would have failed without him...or Jefferson....or Paul Revere or Samuel Adams..or the swamp fox in South Carolina. Franklin and Adams secured the support of France. That would not have happened if Franklin wasn’t a rock star in France, and without French support, we would have been destroyed by Britian.
” and without French support, we would have been destroyed by Britian.”
We probably owe our victory at Yorktown to Admiral François Joseph Paul De Grasse’s 3,000 French Marines, and even more importantly to his ships driving off the British fleet at the Battle of the Chesapeake Capes.
Of course I like to think that the turning point of the war was the militia action called the Battle of Williamson’s Plantation, where my Carroll ancestor dispatched Christian Huck, the commander of the Tory troops. Of the 115 Loyalists present 24 survived the Patriot slaughter. This was a harbinger of what was to come at King’s Mountain and Cowpens.