"So the political alignments of 1789 shoot him out onto the enlisted staff of the Revolution "
"Exactly.He found his way into the heart of the virginian general and when the general was ill he had to take the decision in his stead a wonderful task .When six months after taking over the job at Morristown had written to Alexander Macdougall that there was no major military event and Washington was ill,in the spared attempt not to disturb him,he had to take decision on his behalf and even when he had recovered he had to decide on matters quickly and hesitant to disturb him.What a tremendous amount of confidence to function as the President's proxy and spoke with authoritative voice in his absence.Regardless of the physical differences whether he was a diminutive element or not in which the forty-five years old Washington towered above him by at least a difference of seven inches didn't bother him at all.That physical contrast compared to the slender frame was responsible to the mouldy canard Washington had a bastard on a trip to Barbados in 1751."
"Four years prior to Hamilton's birth."
"Washington early experience during the circumstances when things are pretty dull for him coincided with this period of sympathy for him.Washington was born to a wealthy tobacco planter and the man died when he was mere eleven and he was unlucky under the imperious mother hood never attended college for he also suffered limited formal schooling.From a young age he was trained a surveyor.Apparently although he was temperamental person yet he govern his temper well with seasoned self control .When Lord Fairfax penned note to the mother of the sixteen years old he says"I wish that I could say that he governs his temper."That "He is subject to attacks of anger and provocation some time without just cause".
Both men tried to capture stardom with different approaches and both fearful of their early insecurities and both adopted program of self improvement as a way to capture stardom.Both saw military fame as the passport to stardom and to become lieutenant colonel at twenty two was nothing less than startling achievement.
"He was fond of military exploits when he says"I have heard the bullet whistles and believe me there's something charming in the sound."
He suffered many abuses under pigheaded abusive General Edward Bradock and was sensitive to opprobrious officers as it were in the days of condescending to the British soldiers.Regardless of early disappointment with people same residual cynicism that was jibe well with Hamilton, Washington was catapulted into the richest tobacco planter in his time and inherited Mt.vernon estate from a poor young chap.Shortly after visit to Barbados the half brother died and so consequently inherited the estate as the sole owner.He was married at twenty six to prosperous widow Martha Dandridge Curtis who had two surviving kids from previous marriage had none for Washington."
"Uhhmmmmm vanity"
"Sometimes people mocked him he was sterile probably as a result of smallpox he contracted in the Barbados visit.Perhaps due to this failure of fulfilled paternal instincts might have encouraged him to father many surrogate sons during the period.The likes of marquis de Lafayette was one of them and did also called Hamilton "my boy". Sometimes bought and owned a human cargo of hundred slaves especially during the revolution . Buying directly from holders of slave ships started as excellent speculator in foreign Land.The estate was thirteen square miles after expansion and invented the ploughs as the creative farmer and controled small industrial village at Vernon.It included flour mill and a manufacturer of textiles had extensive political experience in his military company and for fifteen years was a member of the Virginia house of burgesses.He attended first and second continental Congresses.
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