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Officer in the Revolutionary War
Hamilton fulfilled his boyhood wish when he became an officer in the Revolutionary War. In this letter to the Marquis de Lafayette, he reports on a joint French and American attack on British forces at Yorktown, Virginia. The Battle of Yorktown, where the British capitulated, was the last battle of the Revolutionary War.
Song: "Yorktown (The World Turned Upside Down)"
Alexander Hamilton to the Marquis de Lafayette, October 15, 1781 |