Atlas of Battles

commander, 4 engagements

Battles of Alexander Hamilton

Battles of Alexander Hamilton

American Founding Father and statesman (1755/1757–1804)

Alexander Hamilton is recorded as a commander at 4 placed engagements in the atlas between 1776 and 1781: 3 battles and 1 siege, all in present-day United States. Taken in date order, the sites lie 506 km apart end to end, 169 km between engagements on average. Most belong to American Revolutionary War (4).

Battle of White PlainsBattle of PrincetonBattle of BrandywineSiege of YorktownBattle of White PlainsBattle of PrincetonBattle of BrandywineSiege of YorktownPittsburghNorfolkBaltimoreBridgeportRichmondHarrisburgLynchburgCharlottesvilleNewarkYork200 km39.130N, 75.141W
4 placed engagements, coloured by era. Present-day coastlines; ringed marks are the most widely documented.

Engagements by year

1776: 1 engagements1777: 2 engagements2 in 17771781: 1 engagements17761781
4 dated engagements, one bar per year, coloured by era.

In time order

Battle of White Plains, 1776Battle of Princeton, 1777Battle of Brandywine, 1777Siege of Yorktown, 178117761781
One tick per dated engagement; each tick is a link.

Wars 1

Engagements by date

DateEngagementPlaceFrom the lastResult
28 October 1776Battle of White PlainsWhite Plains, New York, United StatesBritish victory
3 January 1777Battle of PrincetonPrinceton Battlefield, New Jersey, United States108 km SWAmerican victory
11 September 1777Battle of BrandywineChadds Ford Township, Pennsylvania, United States93 km SWBritish victory
1781Siege of YorktownYorktown, Virginia, United States304 km SFranco-American victory

Sources and method

Commanders come from the commander fields of the English Wikipedia infoboxes of these engagements (CC BY-SA 4.0), resolved to one article each; portrait, dates and description from Wikidata (CC0) and Wikimedia Commons, John Trumbull, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Distances are great-circle distances between recorded sites, not marches.