"Why do you have so many names?"
"Comment?"
"Names. Joseph, Paul—names."
"Oui, oui. Alors. So many before me, they make dead in battle. And so ma mère, she want me have protection of heaven. And so, Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier."
"What do I call you then?"
"Gilbert."
THÉODORE PELLERIN as GILBERT DU MOTIER, THE MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE
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When Washington would call his soldiers, did he say "pack it up skittle squad" while John and Alexander made-out in the corner as Lafayette did splits or did I just make it up
Ok history nerds, putting this question out to the populace because I'm running into some dead ends here and commerce isn't my strong suit.
So we know that the Boston Tea Party happened because the cargo on the tea ships had to be unloaded and paid for during a specific time frame. People in other towns just had the tea sent back to England, but in Massachusetts the governor convinced his literal nepotism babies to prevent that. The idea is that the tea party proceeded to destroy the tea within minutes of the deadline before...what? What was the actual consequence of the tea still being on there at midnight? Would the ship leave? Would some government official take the tea? If so, who would pay the tax then? Do people get sold the stuff by force? There's so much general language of "land the tea or else" without much clarity of what the "or else" actually was.