Answer:
Toward the finish of the 1791 monetary year (which is the main year of accessible information from TreasuryDirect.gov), the United States had an all out open obligation heap of $75,463,477. This works out to around $1.75 billion out of 2010 dollars.
If this is sociology, then the answer is that in any crowd, anywhere in the world, people have many different motivations.
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Because they though their military skill would protect them