The proposal to remove Alexander Hamilton from the ten-dollar ... Brien’s outstanding study The Long Affair: Thomas Jefferson and the French Revolution (1996). “Rien n’est beau que le ...

A confirmed Anglophile, Hamilton watches the start of the French Revolution with trepidation ... at the New York home of Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson and there strikes a deal with ...

Alexander Hamilton was born on January 11, 1757, in Nevis, British West Indies. His father, James Hamilton, was a Scottish trader. His mother, a French woman named Rachel Fawcett Lavine ...