Robert Morris

<p>While Robert Morris is remembered as the "financier of the Revolution," his partner and former boss, Thomas Willing, has been lost to history despite his own contributions to early American business and finance. </p>

<p><span class="deck">Skillful money-juggling by America’s first financier aided the new nation but led Morris himself to utter ruin</span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> In Pierre Landais the Continental Navy had its own real-life Commander Queeg. His tour as master of the <span class="typestyle"> Alliance</span> was a nightmare wilder than any a novelist could invent </span></p>