Alexander Hamilton (177 page)

military strategy of as military vs. political leader

murder plots against

Neutrality Proclamation of

in New York

popularity of

portraits of

as president, first term

as president, second term

reserve of

Shays’s Rebellion and

slavery and

Society of the Cincinnati and

superb judgment of

surrogate sons of

temper of

third term rejected by threat of Newburgh mutiny and

Virginia Resolutions and

Whiskey Rebellion and

Yorktown siege and

Washington, Lawrence

Washington, Martha Dandridge Custis

Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton on

Watt, James

Weaver, P. T.

Webster, Daniel

Webster, Noah

Weehawken, N.J., duels in

Weeks, Ezra

Weeks, Levi

West, Benjamin

western lands

West Indies

British

emancipated blacks relocated to

epidemics and medicine in

French

New York City’s links with

U.S. trade with

see also
Nevis; St. Croix; St. Kitts

West Point

Whigs:

in England

in New York

political views of whiskey, excise tax on

Whiskey Rebellion

controversy after

multistate militia in

spreading of

White House

White Plains, Battle of (1776)

Whitney, Eli

Wilkinson, James

Willett, Marinus

Williamson, Charles

Willing, Thomas

Wills, Garry

Wilson, James

Wilson, Woodrow

Winstanley, William

Witherspoon, John

Wolcott, Mrs. Oliver, Jr.

Wolcott, Oliver, Jr.

AH’s correspondence with

army organization and

Hamilton-Burr duel and

Jay Treaty and

Wolcott, Oliver, Jr. (
cont.
)

Reynolds affair and

as treasury secretary

Wood, Gordon

Wyche, William

Wythe, George

XYZ Affair

Yard, James

Yates, Abraham, Jr.

Yates, Robert

Constitutional Convention and

in election of 1789

yellow-fever epidemics

York, duke of (son of George III)

Yorktown, Battle of (1781)