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While George Washington led armies, one man was quietly saving the Revolution with nothing but a ledger book and unshakeable faith in a country that wasn't even his yet. Haym Salomon arrived in America as a Polish-Jewish immigrant and became the financial lifeline that kept the entire war effort from collapsing. He risked his life as a spy, escaped British imprisonment, and personally funded the very people trying to build a nation. Yet when he died, America still owed him everything.