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Alexander Hamilton, The Unknown Hero An ordinary teenager or adult would address Alexander Hamilton as an arbitrary founding father on the ten dollar bill, for they do not acknowledge the great achievements that Hamilton completed throughout his short life. Alexander Hamilton changed America. To start with, Hamilton was an immigrant from the Caribbean. At the age of seventeen, a hurricane destroyed his town. Hamilton wrote his way out of the madness he was facing. He wrote his first essay, a testament to his pain. The citizens of his town were moved by his writings, they funded money for him to move to New York to receive an education. Alexander Hamilton, fought as George Washington s right hand man in the Revolution, defended the United States Constitution, and saved the nation from bankruptcy to prosperity. Alexander Hamilton was the foundation to a thriving nation. Hamilton wished for a war to prove that he was capable of anything he put his mind to. 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