here's a portrait by john trumble and like alexander hamilton john trumble at one point served as an aide to general george washington during the revolution. he served the shortest. he was there for three weeks as a very talented artist during the siege of boston. this was a portrait, of course, used for the $10 bill but there's a lot more to him than just that head, isn't there, there's the entire full length pore trail the which oddly sits in new york city city hall and my wife and i have had the permission from city hall to reproduce and hang in our house and i hope that that's what you take away from today is an amazing appreciation for all the incredible accomplishments of alexander hamilton in his varied roles as military commander, not just as an aide to washington. that's a heavy portion of it, but you'll see a lot more than that. starts out at a captain, and then he's late every lieutenant colonel. and this is probably i would say one of the best-known portraits of hamilton in a military uniform during the american revolution. alexander hamilton in the uniform of the new yor

this is a painting again by john trumble. there are two of these. november/december of 1798 they meet at a good federalist who had military experience from the sourt because they were afraid the french might attack the south. he will come up from charleston for this meeting along with secretary of war james mchenry. hamilton has organized out how everything's going to work with platoons and companies and regimens and battalions. it's very organized. it shows how obsessive-compulsive hamilton was with details including the uniforms and even the soldiers' huts. after the five weeks were over until philadelphia, hamiton will then return to his office at 36th greenwich street in manhattan. there's an encampment not all too far from here. that is scotch plains, new jersey. it is a site picked by new jersey's own. this was an office from elizabeth just like all the others i've mentioned. that's aaron ogden. one of the other things that gets overlooked is alexander's membership in the so-called society of cincinnati. this is the diamond eagle. it was prese