Adams made a conciliatory overture and announced plans to dispatch a diplomatic mission to Paris. The three-man delegation was to include two southern Federalists, John Marshall and Charles Cotesworth...
Actually, Hamilton's exploding cannon may have killed as many as six of his men and wounded four or five others. Some critics blamed inadequate training for the mishap, but the general dissipation of...
Abigail Adams, who did not set sail until November, seemed miffed by the enforced southward shift, swearing that she would try to enjoy Philadelphia but that when all is done it will not be Broadway.
A southerner by choice, Akerman found it sobering to verify the depth of Klan penetration in the region, which revealed a perversion of moral sentiment among the Southern whites which bodes ill to tha...
A prudent silence will frequently be taken for wisdom and a sentence or two cautiously thrown in will sometimes gain the palm of knowledge, while a man well informed but indiscreet and unreserved will...
80–82 Jane Street. Taken to a large, second-floor bedroom, Alexander Hamilton was never to emerge from the house.
We know that he read a considerable amount of philosophy, including Bacon, Hobbes, Montaigne, and Cicero.
The last analysis, the durable bond formed between Hamilton and Washington during the Revolution was based less on personal intimacy than on shared experiences of danger and despair and common hopes f...
That countries follow their interests, not their sympathies—was engraved in Hamilton’s memory, and he often reminded Jeffersonians later on that the French had fought for their own selfish purposes.
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Scheme which requires such a sacrifice. But
Rude and petulant, his frank manner a cloak for infinite calculation. Clinton
Religions.
Raiders, the United States wanted Great Britain to foot the bill for the entire war cost after Gettysburg, some $2 billion, the logic being that after Gettysburg, the Confederacy had abandoned offensi...
Pernicious;
If Clinton was taken prisoner it would be our misfortune, since the British government could not find another commander so incompetent to send in his place.
For he had the attorney’s ability to make the best case for an imperfect client. He was not alone in making this transition: all the delegates at Philadelphia had adopted the final document in a spiri...
Demagogue.
Currency, so he wouldn’t be seen as questioning American credit, but by the summer of 1779 he could no longer afford these massive losses and discontinued the practice. The previous winter Washington...
An Anglican college in New York, which, he warned, would become a contracted receptacle of bigotry