Alexander Hamilton
Books
- The Officers at Newburgh George Washington, the Newburgh Conspiracy, and the Crisis That Forged the American Republic · Liszt Think
In March 1783, peace had been signed but the Continental Army remained unpaid and restless at Newburgh. Two anonymous addresses circulated through camp, urging officers to defy Congress and march on Philadelphia.
- The Nationalist Gambit in PhiladelphiaThe letter from Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, dated February 13, 1783, arrived in Newburgh at a moment when patience had worn to its final threads. Hamilton had wr…
- The Anonymous Addresses…endent of Finance, had suspended pay to the troops in January, pleading insolvency. His correspondents in the army reported growing unrest. Alexander Hamilton, who had served as Washington’s aide before winning election to Congress, wrote to his former commander with advice: the army’s discontent…
- The General’s Unwanted Command…was real. Its grievances were just. And its potential for violence was genuine. The nationalists in Philadelphia—Morris, Gouverneur Morris, Alexander Hamilton—saw that the army’s anger could be directed toward political ends. If the officers threatened Congress, if they marched on Philadelphia, if…
- The Summer the Capital Emptied Yellow Fever, Race, and the Collapse of Philadelphia in 1793 · Liszt Think
In August 1793, yellow fever struck Philadelphia, then the nation’s capital. Within weeks, George Washington fled and half the city followed. Five thousand died before the first frost. Amid the exodus, Dr.
- The Exodus Begins…es who had no authority to make decisions and no instructions on how to proceed. The Treasury Department felt the effects most immediately. Alexander Hamilton had been ill, though not with the fever, and was absent. His chief clerk and a skeleton staff kept the office open, but the work of the fed…
- The Dispute Over the French Method…at all costs. Rush had tried the stimulating remedies advocated by Dr. Edward Stevens, who in mid-September claimed the treatment had cured Alexander Hamilton, the Secretary of the Treasury. Rush claimed that his patients still died. Stimulation, he concluded, fed the fever rather than quenching i…
- The Unpaid Account…. He had tried the stimulating remedies advocated by Jean Devèze and Edward Stevens—the cold-water treatment that Stevens claimed had cured Alexander Hamilton—and found that his patients still died. The medical dispute between Rush’s depleting method and Devèze’s stimulating approach had consumed…