Meanwhile in the Schuyler mansion, Eliza pays her mother a visit in her parents' bedroom. Alex know this will break Eliza's heart but he is determined. It is a matter of pride - he doesn't want to thought of as a coward who "spent the war in a paneled office with a pen in his hand and a warm fire at his back." When further pressed if he has revealed his ambitions to Eliza, Alex admits he has not done so yet. Alex tells General Schuyler and John that he intends to fight at Yorktown, Virginia where the British under General Cornwallis has gathered his troops. This greatly concerns his father-in-law who fears that Eliza will be left a widow. In the back room of the Schuylkill Tavern the three men seal a munitions agreement where Church will "provide five hundred rifles, twenty barrels of powder, and two tons of shot to General Washington at Newburgh, and the Continental army will pay you one thousand pounds sterling." When pressed, Alex reveals that he plans to ask General Washington for his own unit to command. Before Alex leaves to report back to duty, Eliza's family have planned a goodbye party this evening.Įliza's father General Philip Schuyler, her husband Alexander Hamilton, as well as Angelica's husband John Barker Church have gone into town on business. After their marriage he had rushed back to General Washington's headquarters. Eliza, desperately missing Alexander, has been out with her sisters, Angelica, Peggy, five year old Cornelia and eight-year-old Rensselaer picking a rich harvest of berries.Įliza is impatient to move out of her parents home, wishing that she and Alex could set up their own home soon but they have been apart more than they have been together. Elizabeth is living at the Pastures, her parents' estate in Albany. It is April 1781 and the War of Independence is raging. And with Alex's star on the rise, Eliza can't help but feel neglected by a husband who seems to have time for everyone but her.Love and War picks up months after the marriage of Elizabeth Schuyler and Alexander Hamilton. Eliza struggles to build a home in the hustle and bustle of New York City just as Alex's burgeoning law practice brings him up against his greatest rival-the ambitious young lawyer Aaron Burr. Yet even after the Revolution comes to its historic close, Alex and Eliza's happily-ever-after is threatened.
But when the war unexpectedly arrives on Eliza's doorstep, she must fight for a better future-for their fledgling country and for her marriage. even if that means leaving his beloved Eliza behind to join the front lines at the Battle of Yorktown. Still, Alex is as determined as ever to prove his mettle and secure his legacy. The thrilling romance of young Alexander Hamilton and Eliza Schuyler continues in the sizzling sequel to theĪs the war for American independence rages on, Alexander Hamilton and Elizabeth Schuyler begin their new life as a married couple.
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