August Belmont person
also: August, August Belmont, Belmont, Schönberg
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Rothschild family funded
August Belmont documented
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“By the 1840s he had a credit facility with the London house of £10,000.…”
source: book — The House of Rothschild, Volume 1: Money's Prophets, 1798-1848 · ch. THIRTEEN Quicksilver and Hickory (1834-1839)
August Belmont visited
Rome documented
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“By 1834 he was acting as secretary to one of the partners, visiting Paris, Naples and Rome…”
source: book — The House of Rothschild, Volume 1: Money's Prophets, 1798-1848 · ch. THIRTEEN Quicksilver and Hickory (1834-1839)
August Belmont visited
Naples documented
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“By 1834 he was acting as secretary to one of the partners, visiting Paris, Naples and Rome…”
source: book — The House of Rothschild, Volume 1: Money's Prophets, 1798-1848 · ch. THIRTEEN Quicksilver and Hickory (1834-1839)
August Belmont met_with
Lionel de Rothschild documented
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“Belmont himself... explicitly told Lionel when he visited London in 1863…”
source: book — The House of Rothschild, Volume 2: The World's Banker, 1849-1999 · ch. THREE Nationalism and the Multinational (1859-1863)
August Belmont met_with
William H. Kemble documented
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“when Belmont protested, he elicited a crudely anti-Semitic response from the state’s Treasurer, William H. Kemble…”
source: book — The House of Rothschild, Volume 2: The World's Banker, 1849-1999 · ch. THREE Nationalism and the Multinational (1859-1863)
John Sherman did_business_with
August Belmont documented
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“The Secretary of the Treasury John Sherman then negotiated a new loan of $50 million in gold coin through Belmont in 1877 which allowed the adoption of the gold standard to go ahead at the beginning of 1879.…”
source: book — The House of Rothschild, Volume 2: The World's Banker, 1849-1999 · ch. ELEVEN The Risks and Returns of Empire (1885-1902)
August Belmont member_of
Rothschild family documented
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“The Rothschilds’ New York agent August Belmont was widely attacked in the North during the American Civil War because he favoured a negotiated peace with the South and supported General George McClellan’s nom ination as Democrat candidate i…”
source: book — The House of Rothschild, Volume 1: Money's Prophets, 1798-1848 · ch. INTRODUCTION Reality and Myth
August Belmont did_business_with
George McClellan documented
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“The Rothschilds’ New York agent August Belmont was widely attacked in the North during the American Civil War because he favoured a negotiated peace with the South and supported General George McClellan’s nom ination as Democrat candidate i…”
source: book — The House of Rothschild, Volume 1: Money's Prophets, 1798-1848 · ch. INTRODUCTION Reality and Myth
August Belmont worked_for
Frankfurt Rothschild Bank documented
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“Belmont had joined the Frankfurt house as an apprentice at the age of fifteen, and had risen rapidly through the ranks…”
source: book — The House of Rothschild, Volume 1: Money's Prophets, 1798-1848 · ch. THIRTEEN Quicksilver and Hickory (1834-1839)
August Belmont moved_to
New York City documented
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“in 1837 it was decided to send him across the Atlantic…”
source: book — The House of Rothschild, Volume 1: Money's Prophets, 1798-1848 · ch. THIRTEEN Quicksilver and Hickory (1834-1839)
August Belmont visited
Paris documented
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“By 1834 he was acting as secretary to one of the partners, visiting Paris, Naples and Rome…”
source: book — The House of Rothschild, Volume 1: Money's Prophets, 1798-1848 · ch. THIRTEEN Quicksilver and Hickory (1834-1839)
August Belmont founded
August Belmont & Co. documented
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“he acquired an office at 78 Wall Street and announced the establishment of August Belmont & Co., with the plan of acting as the Rothschild agent there.…”
source: book — The House of Rothschild, Volume 1: Money's Prophets, 1798-1848 · ch. THIRTEEN Quicksilver and Hickory (1834-1839)
August Belmont operated_in
United States documented
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“he acquired an office at 78 Wall Street and announced the establishment of August Belmont & Co., with the plan of acting as the Rothschild agent there.…”
source: book — The House of Rothschild, Volume 1: Money's Prophets, 1798-1848 · ch. THIRTEEN Quicksilver and Hickory (1834-1839)
August Belmont did_business_with
Sam Cohen documented
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“Instead of going to Philadelphia to collect the 300,000 francs from Cohen he says, “I shall remain in New York.”…”
source: book — The House of Rothschild, Volume 1: Money's Prophets, 1798-1848 · ch. THIRTEEN Quicksilver and Hickory (1834-1839)
Rothschild family paid
August Belmont documented
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“The following month it was agreed to increase his salary to £500, paid jointly by the London and Paris houses.…”
source: book — The House of Rothschild, Volume 1: Money's Prophets, 1798-1848 · ch. THIRTEEN Quicksilver and Hickory (1834-1839)
August Belmont member_of
Rothschild family host_asserted
“This guy's father came to America a few decades earlier as an agent of the Rothschild banking family. And if you've heard of the Belmont Stakes, one of the Triple Crown races, that's named after Oliver's father, August. So another high soci…”
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