USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -He was a 17-year-old living in St. Croix and working as a clerk. When the hurricane passed, he wrote a letter to his father, “melodramatic description” of the storm, as Hamilton biographer Ron Chernow wrote, which he managed to publish in the Royal Danish American Gazette on Oct.

Detailed explanation-2: -I take up my pen just to give you an imperfect account of one of the most dreadful Hurricanes that memory or any records whatever can trace, which happened here on the 31st ultimo at night. It began about dusk, at North, and raged very violently till ten o’clock.

Detailed explanation-3: -In August 1772, a hurricane ravaged the West Indies-and a young Alexander Hamilton picked up a pen to write about it. The resulting letter would inspire the residents of the island where Hamilton lived to pool their money for a scholarship to send him to the future United States of America … and into the history books.

Detailed explanation-4: -Alexander Hamilton is believed to have written the only surviving account of a 1772 hurricane. Nearly 250 years ago, a 17-year-old office clerk named Alexander Hamilton looked out across the devastation unleashed by a powerful hurricane on the small northeastern Caribbean island of St. Croix.

Detailed explanation-5: -Inside the 1772 St. Croix hurricane that drove Hamilton to America-The Washington Post.