Their marriage was fraught with many disagreements. She desperately wants the freedom to be recognized in her own right as a person of stature. Her goal is to survive the war, then reveal she’s a woman, perhaps write a book, and go on a lecture tour around the country to talk about her experiences. She makes every effort to erase her Jewish roots by exhibiting utter disregard to food, holidays, cultural mores and rules in her bid to be more American. Rachel Mendelson abandons her husband Nathan in order to join the Revolutionary War disguised as Ezra Jacobs, a common Patriot solider under Hamilton’s command. These twin threads run through all three tales. Eliza Hamilton is collecting the reminiscences of the people who served under her husband in order to put together his biography. These novellas are set during the Revolutionary War in the year 1781 when Colonel Alexander Hamilton led the siege against Yorktown and won a key victory in the fight for American independence. It’s an inspiring book for our time and one of the most heartwarming and hopeful books I’ve read this year. It is rare when all the stories of an anthology please, but Hamilton’s Battalion is one such collection.
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