The next three songs bring Hamilton into the heat of battle. Hamilton is crushed, but there is one perk: he gets to go home to Eliza, who begs to be “part of” her husband’s narrative and reveals that she is pregnant with their first son Philip (“That Would Be Enough”). Washington is embarrassed that Hamilton resorts to violence, so he temporarily fires the younger man (“Meet Me Inside”). When Washington promotes inept Charles Lee over Hamilton, a duel ensues (“The Ten Duel Commandments”).

Hamilton isn’t content, either: he is desperate to be made a general, but Washington, overwhelmed by the British ships surrounding New York City, sees him as an administrator (“Stay Alive”). While Hamilton rises through the ranks, Burr resents his own failure to launch-but promises himself his time will come (“Wait For It”).

But then the scene rewinds-and audiences realize that Angelica, also in love with Hamilton, has decided to step back to make her sister happy (“Satisfied”). Eliza is captivated, and in a whirlwind R&B number, Hamilton and Eliza court and get married (“Helpless”). At the party, Hamilton meets sweet Eliza and her older sister, quick-thinking Angelica. The war grows tenser, but Hamilton and Burr find time to party with the Schuyler sisters (“A Winter’s Ball”). Things aren’t looking good for the American side, but Washington rallies the troops, hiring Hamilton as his closest aide (“Right Hand Man”). The revolution heats up: in waltz time, Hamilton publicly mocks British loyalists (“Farmer Refuted”), while British King George sings a Beatles-esque break-up song to his American subjects (“You’ll Be Back”). Hamilton meets Burr (“Aaron Burr, Sir”), and the two men’s worldviews clash: Hamilton is verbose and openly ambitious, whereas Burr believes everyone should “talk less / smile more.” Fortunately, Hamilton also gets to know Lafayette, Laurens, and Mulligan, three equally rowdy young revolutionaries (“My Shot”) they share Hamilton’s feeling that “I’m just like my country / I’m young, scrappy, and hungry / and I’m not throwing away my shot.” While the men drink to their new friendship (“The Story of Tonight”), across town, Angelica, Peggy, and Eliza Schuyler have snuck away from their country house to spend a reckless day in the city (“The Schuyler Sisters”). The song is narrated largely by Aaron Burr, Hamilton’s frenemy and the story’s primary antagonist (“Alexander Hamilton”). The first song in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s musical Hamilton follows Alexander Hamilton from his birth in the Caribbean through the loss of his mother, and then to his eventual arrival in New York. Act 2: Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story.Act 1: Yorktown (The World Turned Upside Down).

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