He handled letters to Congress, state governors, and the most powerful general in the Continental Army. Hamilton spent four years as Washington’s chief staff aide. However, Hamilton eventually received an offer he felt he could not refuse, to serve as George Washington’s aide.

After this, Hamilton refused invitations to become general’s aides believing that his best chance to improve his station in life was glory on the battlefield.

By 1777, he participated in the Battle of Princeton, in which he contributed to the American victory over the British. This was the beginning of his military career. In 1775, Hamilton and other King’s College students joined a New York volunteer militia company called the Corsicans. He was forced to stop his studies before graduating when the college closed its doors during the British occupation of the city. Hamilton entered King’s College (now Columbia) in the autumn of 1773. In October 1772, he arrived by ship in Boston, and from there proceeded to New York City. He soon desired a life outside of the island and after a letter he wrote his father was published in the newspaper impressed the local community leaders, they collected enough funds to send Hamilton to the North American colonies for his education. Without his mother, Hamilton became a clerk at the local import-export firms and he proved so capable as a trader that he was left in charge of the firm for five months in 1771, while the owner was at sea. James later abandoned Rachel and when Rachel later contracted yellow fever and died in 1768, Hamilton and his older brother James Jr. Alexander Hamilton was born Janu(or 1755), to James Hamilton, a Scottish merchant, and Rachel Fawcett, in Charlestown, Nevis in the British West Indies.

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