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Happy Birthday, Tommy J 🧁🎉

#happy birthday mr president #18th century #american revolution #thomas jefferson #18thcentury #founding daddies

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Detail of how to rig the foretop of an 18th century warship - In: The Anatomy of Nelson's Ships, by C. Nepean Longridge, page 213

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I don't celebrate the 4th of July. I celebrate the 24th of July lmao

John Hancock: WHAT THE HELL GOES ON IN NEW YORK

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/hancock-scolds-schuyler

#john hancock #philip schuyler #continental army #american revolution #1776 #continental congress #18thcentury #founding daddies

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A John Trumbull selfie. 1777

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Memorable (and favorite) moments of Captain James Flint cursing.

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#thomas jefferson #master thot thomas jefferson #18th century #american revolution #founding daddies

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From Thomas Jefferson - The Art of Power by Jon Meacham

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#redheadedsonofabitch #thomas jefferson #pretty fellow #president of the united states #19th century

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"the warrior and the abigail thus united"

Girl, I wanna put John Paul Jones in my pocket too

#abigail adams #john paul jones #18th century #american revolution #i wanna put john paul jones in my pocket

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Forget me, forget Teach, forget loyalty, compacts, honor, debts, all of it. The only question that matters is this - Who are you?

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"God save the King"┃Hornblower (The Even Chance)

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Aveline

New Orleans and the bayou

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The Keepers of the Eastern Door by Robert Griffing, portraying two Mohawk warriors in the mid-eighteenth century. The Mohawk were the easternmost tribe of the powerful Iroquois Confederacy, an alliance closely involved in the Seven Years War and the American Revolution (usually fighting alongside the British). Always loved Griffing's artwork, especially his pieces depicting eighteenth c. highlanders and Native Americans.

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Founding Feathers

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India Amarteifio as Queen Charlotte in Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story (TV Mini-Series, 2023).    

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It's Boston massacre day. Visited these souls in October 2023.

Also, it's presidential primary day for 15 states. Consider filling in the uncommitted box to send a message to Joe Biden to stop funding israel and call for a permanent ceasefire! Free Palestine!

#boston massacre #18th century #american revolution #colonial america #free palestine

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weapons of ass destruction 😅

Compiled my favorite pickup lines you all sent to Ben, because I’m still not over them!

#weapons of ass destruction

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I present two letters, both written by John Laurens in 1777. You should notice that the handwriting in the letters does not match. So what's the difference? Laurens wrote the left letter with his left hand, and he wrote the right letter with his right hand.

The left letter is a letter from John Laurens to Henry Laurens dated October 15, 1777. John Laurens wrote this letter with his left hand as he had been wounded in the right shoulder during the Battle of Germantown on October 4, 1777. He had even used his uniform sash as a sling for his right arm:

If James can purchase a broad Green Ribband to serve as the Ensign of my Office, and will keep an account of what he lays out for me in this way I shall be obliged to him_ My old Sash rather disfigur’d by the heavy Rain which half drown’d us on our march to the Yellow Springs, (and which by the bye spoilt me a waistcoat and breeches of white Cloth and my uniform Coat, clouding them with the dye wash’d out of my hat) served me as a Sling in our retreat from German Town, and was render’d unfit for farther Service_ - John Laurens to Henry Laurens, in a letter dated November 6, 1777

On October 10, 1777, Henry Laurens wrote the following to his son John:

Your favour of the 7th. reached me yesterday Morning at the opening of Congress & as it contained some things new it afforded satisfaction to more than one_ a witty Gentleman from a southern Latitude doubted its having been writ with your left hand & undertook to prove it was dextrously executed_

While the letter pictured above is not the letter Henry was referring to here, we can presume that John was continuing to write with his left hand when he wrote the pictured letter about a week later.

The right letter is a letter from John Laurens to Henry Laurens dated August 13, 1777. This serves as a representation of John Laurens's normal handwriting, which is smoother, has a right slant, and has more spacing between lines.

I've previously discussed John Laurens's handedness, and some have speculated that he was a secret lefty (i.e., he was perhaps naturally left-handed but was trained to use his right hand due to negative perceptions of left-handedness during the time period). It's interesting to see what his handwriting actually looked like with his left hand. While his left-handed writing is not as smooth as his right-handed writing, there still seems to be some dexterity to it.