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Before he set off to Hyderabad, Shore had briefed William Kirkpatrick to stick to the existing Triple Alliance, signed four years earlier in 1790, which bound the Marathas,
William Dalrymple • White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in Eighteenth-Century India
And finally, there was the nearby Springfield Armory, the nerve center of the American military’s drive toward high-technology weapon-making. Ironically, the blueprint for the armory came from the industrially laggard French, with the help of that most committed of pastoralists, Thomas Jefferson. After the American Revolution, Frenchmen helped
... See moreCharles R. Morris • The Tycoons: How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J. P. Morgan Invented the American Supereconomy
The practical methodologies evolved over many years, and were largely the work of John Hall, a gunsmith from Portland, Maine, and inventor of the “Hall carbine” that became notorious when muckrakers dug into the youthful Pierpont Morgan’s dealings with Civil War procurement authorities.
Charles R. Morris • The Tycoons: How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J. P. Morgan Invented the American Supereconomy
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linkedin.comAlexander Hamilton (1755-1804), first Secretary of the Treasury, had two sons, both named Philip. Philip the younger (1802-1884) was assistant District Attorney in New York and was a member and Past Master of Albion Lodge 26. He was often confused with his older brother of the same name who died prior to the second Philip's birth. The elder Philip
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Elmer M. Ellsworth, a special assistant to Governor Winship, was a member of this hand-picked jury.