Clan Hamilton
The Fort James based Hamilton Clan are relative newcomers to the Maderas, having abandoned their much-vaunted neutrality in TN 1923. Heavily involved in shipping, the Hamilton Clan has long been rivals of the ambitious Peters Clan. When Clan Hamilton blocked an attempt by the Zuccite-backed Peters to take control of Annet Factors, an import-export agency associated with the neutral clan, they found themselves on the receiving end of political and economic assaults as well as a number of covert paramilitary strikes. A political re-alignment with the Maderas Group was deemed the only way to halt the Zuccite attacks and indeed the alliance forced the Peters and their associates to scale back their operations. Tensions between the clans remain high, broken by occasional political scuffles. In many regards the Hamilton-Peters feud represents that between the Maderas and Zucco, each jockeying for position but backed by too much force to risk a direct confrontation. Instead, Clan Hamilton has worked to build up the Maderan position in Fort James. Working with the Juarez, long time allies of the Maderas, they have built up strong ties with the new clans of Fort James, including the pro-Maderan Belloc and the non-aligned Hasegawa. Attempts to bring the Hasegawa into the alliance have been politely but firmly rebuffed. Hamilton Roy, a veteran of the Northern Guard in the War of the Alliance, heads the clan.
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