Battle of Germantown
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The Battle of Germantown was a major engagement in the Philadelphia campaign of the American Revolutionary War. It was fought on October 4, 1777, at Germantown, Pennsylvania, between the British Army
1878 painting of American troops attacking Cliveden during the battle
Battle marker at the Lutheran Seminary on Germantown Ave
1782 painting of the battle
American artillery bombarding Cliveden during the battle
Alexander Hamilton
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Alexander Hamilton was an American military officer, statesman, and Founding Father who served as the first U.S. secretary of the treasury from 1789 to 1795 under the presidency of George Washington.
Battle of Germantown
…Britain Hesse-Kassel United States Commanders and leaders Sir William Howe Charles Cornwallis Wilhelm Knyphausen George Washington Nathanael Greene Alexander Hamilton John Sullivan Anthony Wayne William Alexander William Smallwood Moses Hazen Strength 9,000 11,000 Casualties and losses 71 killed 448 wounded 14 missing…
Posthumous portrait by John Trumbull, 1806, from a life bust by Giuseppe Ceracchi, 1794
Alexander Hamilton in the Uniform of the New York Artillery, a portrait by Alonzo Chappel
Portrait of Hamilton authoring the first draft of the U.S. Constitution in 1787
A statue of Hamilton on the south patio of the Treasury Building in Washington, D.C.