He was Washington’s right-hand man in the Revolutionary War

After the first American-British battle at Lexington and Concord in 1775, Hamilton and other college students enlisted in the Corsicans, a volunteer militia unit in New York. This is also one of the most interesting facts about Alexander Hamilton.

Young Hamilton served as a volunteer and eventually rose to the position of aide de camp, or right-hand man, for General George Washington. Hamilton left Washington's inner group in 1781 because he was bored and tired of acting like a high-status clerk. However, after that, Hamilton personally led a charge and attack in the Battle of Yorktown that earned him the title of War Hero.

George Washington, the first president of the United States, wrote his final letter to Alexander Hamilton two days before he passed away on December 14, 1799. Washington, who had served as Hamilton's political mentor during his whole career, praised Hamilton's proposal for the creation of a national military academy in the letter. Such a facility would be of "vital importance to the country," Washington told Hamilton.