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verilas · 1 year
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He wrote: "ily"
But Alexander Hamilton wrote: "Cold in my professions – warm in my friendships – I wish, my Dear Laurens, it were in my power, by actions rather than words, to convince you that I love you."
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yr-martyr · 7 days
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Did you know that John Laurens was a spy?????
I really didn’t til today. Greene appointed him as his personal spymaster and he did a damn good job as an intelligence officer! Really, that is such an interesting fact about this man nobody acknowledges.
“John Laurens returned to his home state after the capture of Cornwallis’s army and Gen. Greene made him his spymaster. Having chaired the legislative committee that wrote the Confiscation Act, Laurens was well poised to obtain exemptions for loyalist planters willing to spy for Congress.” (- Woody Holton, Liberty is Sweet)
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tragicgaylittlemen · 3 months
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"Maturing is realizing that hamilton was the villan in his own story" "Maturing is realizing that burr was the villan"
NO Maturing is realizing that the whole point of the show is showing that there was no villan just a bunch of people with their own storys and views of a Situation. Life is not just black and white, its different shades of grey and no human is fundamentally good or evil, every human is fundamentally human. If you didn't get that then I don't think you understood what Lin-Manuel was trying to bring across.
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How I feel tagging my post #amrev
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gracehosborn · 3 months
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Happy New Year’s! Have spent the day reading more Hamilton papers (while resting from an unfortunate finger injury). Lots of interesting little things within this volume 😊
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pub-lius · 3 months
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Hiiii, do u have a book about the American revolution to recommend me ? :3 I was thinking about 1776 but idk
i have quite a few! depending on what you want to focus on, there’s a few to choose from
if you want to know about washington’s aides de camp while following the timeline of the war, i HIGHLY recommend George Washington’s Indispensable Men by Arthur S. Lefkowitz. its overall really well written and it was my one of my starter amrev books
the ofc there’s The Cause by Joseph J. Ellis, which i haven’t read, but im currently reading his bio of washington and so far i like his style. if you’re more interested in the southern part of the war, there’s The Road to Guilfotd Courthouse by John Buchanan
most of my books are on individuals, but these are the ones that are about larger aspects of this area of history that aren’t very hard reads, meaning they’re relatively concise and can give you a solid background if you wanted to look into more specific areas. i hope i could help and lmk what you go with!!
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fullofobsessions · 6 months
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Hamilton pickup line:
*points at arm muscles* Forget about the French aid, Washington. These are the only guns you need.
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luna-lovegreat · 7 months
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I might not be everyone’s cup of tea, but that’s alright, they can throw me into the harbor as an act of war I can swim
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swforester · 3 months
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Historic Lexington MA. It was here that the first battle of the Revolutionary War took place, early in the morning of April 19th, 1775. Seven citizens of Lexington were killed along with 1 person from Woburn.
"Who fell on this field the first victims of the Sword of British Tyranny and Oppression. " Paul Revere rode through town just after midnight on his famous ride to warn everyone that the British were coming. He would later be captured. The British were marching to Concord to search for and destroy any weapons and ammunition they could found. But because the colonists had been warned the British only found 2 cannons which they destroyed. But when they got to Lexington the colonists were waiting for them. They faced each other on the town green, someone fired the first shot and the American Revolution had begun. Later, another battle would take place in Concord.
Concord Hymn
BY RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Sung at the Completion of the Battle Monument, July 4, 1837
"By the rude bridge that arched the flood,
   Their flag to April’s breeze unfurled,
Here once the embattled farmers stood
   And fired the shot heard round the world.
The foe long since in silence slept;
   Alike the conqueror silent sleeps;
And Time the ruined bridge has swept
   Down the dark stream which seaward creeps.
On this green bank, by this soft stream,
   We set today a votive stone;
That memory may their deed redeem,
   When, like our sires, our sons are gone.
Spirit, that made those heroes dare
   To die, and leave their children free,
Bid Time and Nature gently spare
   The shaft we raise to them and thee."
plate 1: the Minuteman, ready for battle
plates 2,3,4: the battle monument on the green
plates 5&6: the Munroe House, built in 1729, "a witness to the battle"
plate 7: The First Parish Church of Lexington
plates 8,9,10,11: Lexington Burial Ground, established in 1690-the colonists who died during the Battle of lexington are buried here
plates 12&13: historic sketches of the Battle of Lexington
plate 14: a national park service map showing the route that Paul Revere and the British took , through the towns of Lexington and Concord MA on April 19th, 1775
Lexington MA 12/09/23
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lyledebeast · 1 month
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The Patriot has got to be one of the only stories about a revolution where the hero's happy ending is everything in his life going right back to the way it was under the old regime.
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nosferdoc · 9 months
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“The cause of France is compared with that of America during its late revolution. Would to Heaven that the comparison were just. Would to Heaven we could discern in the mirror of French affairs the same humanity, the same decorum, the same gravity, the same order, the same dignity, the same solemnity, which distinguished the cause of the American Revolution. Clouds and darkness would not then rest upon the issue as they now do. I own I do not like the comparison. When I contemplate the horrid and systematic massacres of the 2d and 3d of September; when I observe that a Marat and a Robespierre, the notorious prompters of those bloody scenes, sit triumphantly in the convention and take a conspicuous part in its measures—that an attempt to bring the assassins to justice has been obliged to be abandoned; when I see an unfortunate prince, whose reign was a continued demonstration of the goodness and benevolence of his heart, of his attachment to the people of whom he was the monarch, who, though educated in the lap of despotism, had given repeated proofs that he was not the enemy of liberty, brought precipitately and ignominiously to the block without any substantial proof of guilt, as yet disclosed—without even an authentic exhibition of motives, in decent regard to the opinions of mankind; when I find the doctrines of atheism openly advanced in the convention, and heard with loud applause; when I see the sword of fanaticism extended to force a political creed upon citizens who were invited to submit to the arms of France as the harbingers of liberty; when I behold the hand of rapacity outstretched to prostrate and ravish the monuments of religious worship, erected by those citizens and their ancestors; when I perceive passion, tumult, and violence usurping those seats, where reason and cool deliberation ought to preside, I acknowledge that I am glad to believe there is no real resemblance between what was the cause of America and what is the cause of France—that the difference is no less great than that between liberty and licentiousness. I regret whatever has a tendency to compound them, and I feel anxious, as an American, that the ebullitions of inconsiderate men among us may not tend to involve our reputation in the issue.”
— Alexander Hamilton, 1793.
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thatstrammylargo · 9 months
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dance dance american revolution
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“We want independence.” “Then we shall have a dance to decide if you shall have it.” “What?” king george whips out the ddr pads “Fight me, nerd.”
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yr-martyr · 1 month
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Happy birthday Ben!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Yay!! February 25!
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Below is a clip from the HBO masterpiece. There were no recordings or transcripts from that day. The speech delivered by Adams was what the great statesman Daniel Webster imagined it to be when he eulogized the passing of both Jefferson and Adams, who both died on July 4, 1826, 50 years to the day that America was born.
Webster spoke about the character of John Adams on that day and said something profound about both remembrance and gratitude. He said:
Fellow-citizen, perhaps it may be doubted whether any two men have ever lived in one age, who, more than those we now commemorate, have impressed on mankind their own opinions more deeply into the opinions of others, or given a more lasting direction to the current of human thought. Their work doth not perish with them. The tree which they assisted to plant will flourish, although they water it and protect it no longer; for it has struck its roots deep, it has sent them to the very centre; no storm, not of foce to burth the orb, can overturn it; its branches spread wide; they stretch their protecting arms braoder and broader, and its top is destined to reach the heavens. We are not deceived. There is no delusion here. No age will come in which the American Revolution will appear less than it is, one of the greatest events in human history. No age will come in which it shall cease to be seen and felt, on either continent, that a mighty step, a great advance, not only in American affairs, but in human affairs, was made on the 4th of July, 1776. And no age will come, we trust, so ignorant or so unjust as not to see and acknowledge the efficient agency of those we now honor in producing that momentous event.
The American Revolution endures. We are a nation of 330 million people, and at long last, freedom means freedom for everybody under American law. The events set in motion in 1776 are still unfolding. The Revolution endures, and soon we will come together and rejoice at the endurance of the republic as we celebrate its 250th birthday. It is a republic that has grown more just and powerful with each passing year. The “cause” endures. The work is unfinished. The challenges ahead will be as dangerous as the ones behind. There is no utopia ahead, and history records no era of calm seas.
What a thing it would be to be able to talk to Thomas Jefferson and John Adams. What a thing it would be to show them the portrait of President Barack Obama, and for them to have seen Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin planting an American flag on the surface of the moon.
The world was made new in 1776. The world can be made new every day and in every year.
2022 has ended, and America has endured.
2023 has nearly arrived. Let it be better.
The story of America and her people will continue past another way point, past another mile marker in a few hours. Ahead, there will be tragedy and triumph. We must all resolve to do our part as citizens to protect our inheritance. Perhaps watching the genius of an American artist render the imaginings of one of our most important statesman around one of the most important moments in human history will inspire hope that we, too, will meet the test.
Happy New Year to all.
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youm3us · 2 years
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I doodled Alex ham from memory
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gracehosborn · 3 months
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A good friend of mine has been working on a Continental Army officer coat for me for some time now, and she came by tonight to surprise me with it! It was made using a historically accurate pattern, fabrics, and my favorite part: historically accurate buttons! Surprisingly it’s super cozy—it’s like I’m wearing a warm hug—and it is quite heavy too. I’m so happy with it! Now I just need to get the rest of this uniform….
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