10 Rumors You Didn't Know About The Founding Fathers
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10. Alexander Hamilton Was A Double Agent
He founded the First National Bank, served as the first Secretary of the Treasury, fought alongside George Washington as aide-de-camp, but rumors of Alexander Hamilton's disloyalty to the stars and stripes still dog legacy. Some historians, including Julian P. Boyd, think that Hamilton a double-agent for the British working under the code name Number 7. The evidence for Hamilton's duplicity lies in his desire to model the U.S. along British lines, including a strong central bank and a unified central government (unlike the federal system we have today.)
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