September 2, 2025

Hamiltonian America.Chapter 10.Leonine Strides.page 7

"I think Charles Wilson Peale drew the first portrait of Hamilton."
"Yeah a Washington 's staff when he visited the new jersey headquarters with a miniature of ivory drew the first portrait.It was tinted with gold epaulets and the aide de camp's green ribbon adorned in a blue and buff uniform.With long poignant nose and close cupped hair portray the visage an radical look and not yet with the trait of metropolitan spirit of self assurance a typical demeanor of Hamilton.His face grew from thinness to broaden the width as he age and grew older and broader than his daper class.
Nevertheless for an orphan from the Caribbean to spend the rest of his life at the top echelon of American society the most elite family,this is no mean achievement.He was quartered at the Jacob Tavern 's library that gave him an intimacy at the top military army and could summon aides at any time.Wasinghton was satisfied to keep the staff in one building for the easiness of managing schedules and also located small office to keep obligations intact.About four to six sides abode in one room,with two to bed in a single room in long working days.They copied a hundred letters per day and lavished with random surviews ,dancers and parades.Out of all the aides,he was the youngest most confidential scribe and draft all Washington's letters.Affirm."
"Nothing to affirm?"
"Washington's army valued more intelligence of upward mobility than the European armies top heavy with aristocrats an outdated tradition according to him and this picturesquely portrait of the American army system with tradition allowed him to rise rapidly into a full blooded American with high level political services.The continental army provided the pristine  Hamilton an immigrant whose special love for the adopted country unleashed the template to redefine the non existent American political system with the notion of the American nationalism.His presence at the headquarter according to Nathaniel Greene created "as a bright gleam of sunshine ever growing brighter as the general darkness thinkened"."Frank, affable,intelligent and brave young Hamilton became the favorite of his fellow soldiers"says Harrison Grays Otis who was later a senator.He was capable of making both friends and enemies and "..….make those whom he opposed fear and hate him cordially",says Lawyer Sullivan Williams.He could create psychological trauma than he realized and unwinnable in debates even before seasoned politicians and intelligent folks.


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