My (non Inclusive) Top Moments In Early American History

My (non inclusive) Top Moments In Early American History

- George Washington naming his dogs shit like Sweet Lips

- Aaron Burr lighting himself on fire while trying to light a candle with a gun

- America ever winning in the revolution because we were a fucking mess

- Alexander Hamilton hiding behind Henry Knox at Yorktown when a shell burst near the tent

- Congress not finding John Adams a home in New York, forcing him to live with John Jay for like two months

- Lafayette not noticing he got shot in the leg

- John Adams taking the job of presiding over the senate seriously

- Abigail Motherfucking Adams

- Thomas Jefferson breaking his wrist trying to impress a girl

- The Hamilton family basically having three names that they rotated between kids

- Jefferson inviting Madison to come live with him at Monticello and Madison responding by basically saying he needed a year to think about it and never broaching the subject again

- Literally nobody knowing shit about Monroe

- Hamilton making a bet that he would buy dinner for a dozen delegates at the Constitutional Convention if Gouverneur Morris went up and clapped Washington on the back, which he did, and was subsequently given a glare that made him want to sink into the floor

- Washington actually cutting down two cherry trees

- Admiral de Grasse calling Washington “mon cher petit général”

- Aaron Burr trying to annex Texas and being tried for treason

- the Merry Affair

- Thomas Jefferson procrastinating in calling in Virginia militia, which forced him to flee Richmond when Benedict Arnold swept the capital

- “One hundred and eighty miles in three days and a half. It does admirable credit to the activity of a man at his time of life.” - Alexander Hamilton talking about Horatio Gates abandoning his army at Camden

- Baron Von Stueben showing up at Valley Forge with an Italian greyhound and his gaggle of little French boyfriends

- Baron Von Stueben cussing out the soldiers in French, leaving Hamilton and Laurens to translate

- Baron Von Steuben

- Jefferson being given a 1000 pound wheel of cheese, which no “federalist cows” were allowed to contribute to

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TOMORROW, JUNE 3RD, IS THE BIRTHDAY OF PIERRE-ETIÉNNE/PETER-STEPHEN DU PONCEAU!!!!

DU PONCEAU WAS A FRENCH-AMERICAN LINGUIST AND LAWYER, AS WELL AS THE PRESIDENT OF THE AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY!!! HE WAS THE FIRST MAJOR WESTERN LINGUIST TO STUDY ASIAN AND INDIGENOUS LANGUAGES, AND EVEN COINED TWO MAJOR LINGUISTIC TERMS STILL USED TODAY!!! DU PONCEAU WAS ALSO HEAVILY SPECULATED TO HAVE BEEN BISEXUAL, AND TOMORROW IS BISEXUAL PRIDE DAY!!! EVERYONE TOLD HIM TO WRITE AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY, BUT HE DIDNT, BECAUSE HE THOUGHT HE WASNT WORTH REMEMBERING!!! LETS SHOW HIM THAT HE WAS!!!!

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