some things you prob didn’t know and prob didn’t need to know
him buying prostitutes by accident
here is a post that explains better (x)
sketchy as always, both his VPs died during his presidency
so this guy basically wrote 4 letters to himself under the names of washington and congress
here is a post that explains it (x)
me and some other ppl belive that he was ace
here is a good post on why (x)
here is a song about James Madison in case you were interested (x)
this guy was also v sick and small. he is our smallest president
take a look at his medical history here (x)
ok so during the war of 1812, the British came over and were Burning everything because why not, and Dolly being the amazing women she was, was able to salvage important American history left in the white house before the British burned it down.
here is a drunk history on it (x)
was involved in the Merry Affair (there is a linked post in the Thomas Jefferson section that explains it)
favorite flavor of ice cream was oyster?? like TF??
her first husband and son died of yellow fever but she was able to get the estate and her son John Payne Todd
she influenced her husband James Madison’s political views and basically helped Thomas Jefferson in political affairs as well
through bomb ass parties in the white house
back then Americans thought that tomatoes were poisonous but TJeffs knew better because he had been in France, so one night during a dinner this guy bites into a tomato like an apple and everyone freaked out
would get headaches like all the time. there was this on time where he got one after being awkward in front of a girl he liked
he also broke his write while trying to impress a girl he liked
so he had these rams because back them like everyone had them and this one was called “the abomnial animal” and it attacked a bunch of pedestrians hospitalizing some while also killing a small boy and was only put down after it killed some of his other rams.
while he was a gross and disgusting human being, he also invented some p cool stuff
speaking this invention, he also LOVED mac n cheese so here is stuff about that
and not only did he just love it, he served it for dinners in the white house and at Monticello
“Dined at the President’s - …Dinner not as elegant as when we dined before. [Among other dishes] a pie called macaroni, which appeared to be a rich crust filled with the strillions of onions, or shallots, which I took it to be, tasted very strong, and not agreeable. Mr. Lewis told me there were none in it; it was an Italian dish, and what appeared like onions was made of flour and butter, with a particularly strong liquor mixed with them.”
William Parker Cutler and Julia Perkins Cutler, Life Journals and Correspondence of Rev. Manasseh Cutler (Cincinnati, 1888)
in case you were curious, here is his pasta recipe
6 eggs. yolks & whites.
2 wine glasses of milk
2 lb of flour
a little salt
work them together without water, and very well.
roll it then with a roller to a paper thickness
cut it into small peices which roll again with the hand into long slips, & then cut them to a proper length.
put them into warm water a quarter of an hour.
drain them.
dress them as maccaroni.
but if they are intended for soups they are to be put in the soup & not into warm water
after his wife’s death, Thomas locked himself in their room at Monticello and burned all their letters to each other because he was so sad
if this guy wasn’t already too much, he basically almost started an international war because he escorted the wrong women to dinner
Dolly Madison is involved
b/c this post is already so long here is a post that describes it rlly good. (x)
wanted someone to bring him back a dead stuffed moose so that he could prove to ther countries that America had big animals too
ok this guy is so extra that he answerd his door in pajamas and meet with officals in them too
he was v bad at public speaking
like when he gave his inaugural address no one could hear him
I cannot describe the agitation I felt, while I looked around on the various multitude and while I listened to an address, containing principles the most correct, sentiments the most liberal, and wishes the most benevolent, conveyed in the most appropriate and elegant language and in a manner mild as it was firm. If doubts of the integrity and talents of Mr. Jefferson ever existed in the minds of any one, methinks this address must forever eradicate them. The Senate chamber was so crowded that I believe not another creature could enter. On one side of the house the Senate sat, the other was resigned by the representatives to the ladies. The roof is arched, the room half circle, every inch of ground was occupied. It has been conjectured by several gentlemen whom I’ve asked, that there were near a thousand persons within the walls. The speech was delivered in so low a tone that few heard it. Mr. Jefferson had given your Brother [Samuel Harrison Smith, editor of the National Intelligencer] a copy early in the morning, so that on coming out of the house, the paper was distributed immediately
showed up to valley forge with his Italian greyhound
I must not forget the Baron’s dog Azor, the only pedestrian among us. He was a beautiful Italian greyhound, who had an excellent ear for music. Bad singing set him howling, and barking; while he listened with apparent pleasure to a good song. He was particularly averse to the gamut which Captain Landais, (the Commander of the vessel in which we came over from France,) executed every day, by way of musical exercise, in horrid taste. The dog compelled him at last, to put a stop to his practising.from
Autobiographical Letters of Peter S. Duponceau, 1836.
This gay sugerdaddy held a flame shot party where men were only allowed to come if they were pantless
“Once, with the Baron’s permission, his aides invited a number of young officers to dine at our quarters, on condition that none should be admitted that had on a whole pair of breeches. This was, of course, as pars pro toto; but torn clothes were an indispensable requisite for admission, and in this the guests were very sure not to fail. The dinner took place. The guests clubbed their rations, and we feasted sumptuously on tough beefsteak and potatoes, with hickorynuts for our dessert. Instead of wine we had some kind of spirits, with which we made “salamanders”, that is to say, after filling our glasses, we set the liquor on fire, and drank it up flames and all. Such a set of ragged, and, at the same time, merry fellows, were never brought together. The Baron loved to speak of that dinner and his “sanscullottes”, as he called us. Thus this denomination was first invented in America and applied to the brave officers and soldiers of our revolutionary army.”-
Recounted by Pierre Duponceau in Life of Frederick William von Steuben
He was so bad with money that he relied off his pension from the US gov. and almost went bankrupt until Hamilton helped him with his finances
left all his property to his (boy)friends and aides Ben Walker and William North
almost gets arrested because he showed up in red uniforms
leaves Europe to escape these big gay sex scandals
here is a drunk history about him coming to america (x)
napped with Lafayette under a tree and talked shit about Lee after The Battle of Monmouth
bribing voters to elect him into the House of Burgesses by getting them drunk
this guy has the highest ranking in the military and after he died there was a law made that says that it is impossible to outrank him in the military
ok so this guy rlly loved dogs and when he found a lost dog belonging to General Howe he sent someone to return it rather than keep it out of spite
and speaking of his love for dogs he had a bunch of them and named them rlly weird names
George Washington confesses to a war crime during the French and Indian War because the document was in french and he couldn’t reach french and didn’t want to admit it
James Armistead Lafayette
him being a double agent and enlisting under Lafayette and offering to pose as a slave and spy on the British and the British had the same idea so he was able to cross lines without any problems.
was able to get his freedom and he took Lafayette’s last name and got pension for his work in the war
was gifted an alligator on his 1824 tour of America which he then re-gifted to John Quincy Adams who kept it in the white house bathtub
this bean named his only son after George Washington
he was convinced to join the american revolution by King George iii’s brother
this guy was also v clumsy. one time Marie Anttwonette asked him to dance, knowing how clumsy he was, and he fell while danching with her and she laughed at him.
loved America so much that he is burried with soil from bunker hill even though his grave is in France
changed his moto on his coat of arms to “why not”
Lafayette decided to change the motto on his coat of arms. It had been ‘Vis sat contra fatum’ (Determination is enough to overcome destiny). He made it simpler and took fate out of it. His sword would henceforth read ‘Cur non?’ (Why not?)“
—“For Liberty and Glory” by James R Gaines
Didn’t notice that he got shot at the battle of brandywine. He was more upset about being out of battle than getting shot
joined an abolistionist society with her husband
bought 2 plantations for the sole puropse of freeing sleves
14 at the time of marrige
also popped out 4 of laf’s kids (god bless her)
her mom tried to keep them apart but failed
loved her husband so much that she got impoissoned just to see him
and was almost executed until America stepped in
got her property back after being imprisoned
died from the lead posioning (so sad)
her last words to laf were “i am all yours”
was involved with john andre
the reason behind why her husband Arnold defected to the British and managed to fool everyone that she didn’t know by fainting and making a scene until Ham and Gwash got her “help”. She later told this to Aaron Burr’s wife Theodosia.
here is a drunk history on it (x)
reason for not wanting to hang John Andre was because he thought he was too pretty
“His elocution was handsome; his address easy, polite and insinuating. By his merit he had acquired the unlimited confidence of his general and was making a rapid progress in military rank and reputation. But in the height of his career, flushed with new hope from the execution of a project the most beneficial to his party, that could be devised, he was at once precipitated from the summit of prosperity and saw all the expectations of his ambition blasted and himself ruined.”
- Alexander Hamilton’s letter to John Laurens on October 11, 1780
him loosing his checkbook and having to write the bank for a new one while also asking for his balance which he wrote in the checkbook that he lost
“Months after leaving office, he wrote to the Bank of the United States and admitted that he did not know his account balance because he had lost his bank book—this from the man who had created the bank.”
(Alexander Hamilton, Chernow, 502)
he misspelled “Pennsylvania” on the Constitution
ok so this guy had this paybook in the war where it shows that he researched men whipping women and orgies to help produce an offspring.
hung on to Henry Knox like a baby kwola when a shell burst into the tent after just previously arguing that flinching is unsolider-like
The late Dr. Aeneas Monson, of New Haven, a revolutionary patriot who was with our army at the siege of York, in 1781, used to tell a pleasant story about the British Bombs and the dodging of Hamilton and Knox, which is related by a correspondent in the Courier of that city as follows:
The blinds mentioned in the story were made of hogsheads and pipes filled with sand—they were placed there by the British, for they had occupied the redoubt, and had been driven from it by storm by the Americans. Dr. Monson was himself behind those blinds, and within two or three paces of Hamilton and Knox. With Hamilton, Knox, and others, there were present in that redoubt about four hundred American troops—the French troops were in another redoubt. A general order had been given, that when ashell was seen, they might cry out a shell—but not to cry a shot,when a shot was seen. The reason of this distinction was, that ashell might be avoided, but to cry a shot would only make confusion, and do no good. This order was just then discussed, Col.Hamilton remarking that it seemed to him unsoldier-like to hallooa shell, while Knox contended the contrary, and that the order was wisely given by Gen. Washington, who cared for the life of the men.
The argument, thus stated, was progressed with a slight degree of warmth, when suddenly spat! spat! two shells fell and struck within the redoubt. Instantly the cry broke out on all sides, “ashell! a shell!” and such a scrambling and jumping to reach the blinds and get behind them for defence. Knox and Hamilton were united in action, however differing in word, for both got behind the blinds, and Hamilton to be yet more secure, held on behind Knox, (Knox being a very large man and Hamilton a small man.) Upon this Knox struggled to throw Hamilton off, and in the effort himself (Knox) rolled over and threw Hamilton off towards the shells. Hamilton however scrabbled back again behind the blinds. All this was done rapidly, for in two minutes the shells burst, and threw their deadly missiles in all directions. It was now safe and soldier-like to stand out. “Now,” says Knox, “now what do you think, Mr. Hamilton, about crying shell—but let me tell you not to make a breastwork of me again.” Doctor Monson added that on looking around and finding not a man hurt out of the more than 400, Knox exclaimed, “it is a miracle!”
Ham told a bunch of delegates at the constitutional convention that he would by them dinner if someone went up to annoy Washington, and someone actually did and Washington was not having it, but Ham had to pay up.
scared the crap out of everyone in the town by convincing them that he could talk to ghosts
On occasion, Hamilton gave evidence of a prankish spirit at odds with the image of the sober public man. While on a visit to Newark, Hamiltin’s aide Philip Church met a Polish poet, Julian Niemcewicz, a friend of General Tadeusz Kosciuszko. Niemcewicz insisted that Kosciuszko had entrusted him with a magic secret that permitted him to summon up spirits from the grave. Hamilton, intrigued, invited the Polish poet to a Friday-evening soiree. To give conclusive proof of his black art, Niemcewicz asked Hamilton to step into an adjoining room so that he could not see what was going on. Then one guest wrote down on a card the name of a dead warrior - the baron de Viomenil, who had seen action at Yorktown - and asked the Polish poet to conjure up his shade. Niemcewicz uttered a string of incantations, accompanied by a constantly clanging bell. When it was over, Hamilton strode into the room and “declared that the Baron [de Viomenil] had appeared to him exactly in the dress which he formerly wore and that a conversation had passed between them wh[ich] he was not at liberty to disclose,” related Peter Jay, the governor’s son. That Hamilton had communed with a fallen comrade attracted exceptional attention in New York society, so much so that he had to admit that it was all a hoax he had cooked up with Philip Church and Niemcewicz “to frighten the family for amusement and that it was never intended to be made public.”
- Ron Chernow, Alexander Hamilton
even in the lowest part of his life after his son died, Hamilton used gardening to burn jefferson
“In this new situation, for which I am as little fitted as Jefferson to guide the helm of the UStates, I come to you as an Adept in rural science for instruction”
So his elsest daughter Angelica had a nervuos breakdown after Phillip’s death, so Alex being a cool dad tried to cheer her up by buying her things like Parakeeys and watermelons but it didnt’t work and she remined said until she died.
was p depressed and hated everything about himself and mostly the world (except John Laurens)
I hate Congress—I hate the army—I hate the world—I hate myself. The whole is a mass of fools and knaves; I could almost except you and Meade. Adieu
never rlly hated Burr, he forgave him even after he shot him
I have no ill-will against Colonel Burr.
Me and other people believe that he was a bisexual, mostly shown in his relationship with John Laurens
here are some posts about it (x) (x)
the second one is more about laurens life alltogether but it does mention their relationship
Also their are the letters between them
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. April, 1779
While studying, Hamilton would often be cured up under his blanket and then would pace around cemeteries
On his way to America, his ship caught fire
He watched over a sick baby so the parents could get some rest, and the baby died when he was with her. He then wrote a poem about her.
this can be found in the Hamilton Biography by Ron Chernow
Ok so one night Alex and been out courting his beautiful wife Eliza and he had to return to camp but he forgot the password to enter the camp and was detained.
this can also be found in the Hamilton Bio
he had a wife named martha who he got pregnant and then left behind in London
look back at the laurens-hamilton relationship
here is a post that explains why he is gay [x]
He also rlly loved turtles
here are his drawings of them [x]
i recomend going through @john-laurens blog for more about him
told congress that he couldn’t live without coffee
“Tadeusz Kościuszko was among those rare noblemen who actually exercised the energy, generosity, and principles ideally associated with the educated, enlightened leaders of society. His high-mindedness extended beyond tolerance and charity to true disinterestedness; he devoted his life to bettering the lives of others, sacrificing his own comforts and expecting no reward. Even when he rose to power during the Polish insurrection, Kościuszko refused a large salary as Commander-in-Chief and stated that “he would rather work as a gardener among the hedges of the sprawling Czartoryski Palace” than drain the treasury for his own purposes. Nor did Kościuszko possess the vices traditionally ascribed to aristocrats. Though he was attracted to various single and married women over the course of his life, there is no evidence of any transgressions or impropriety. It is also worth noting that Kościuszko rarely indulged in drinking. He admitted his one addiction in a letter to Dr. William Reed in 1781: “I cannot live without coffee.” It is a difficult to find any shortcomings in regard to Kościuszko’s private character.”
Lindsey Grudnicki, “True To A Single Object”: The Character of Tadeusz Kosciuszko
his friend Agrippa Hull through this massive party at Kosciuszko’s house and Hull didn’t have anything to wear so he just borrows Kosciuszko’s uniform and Kosciuszko comes home in the middle of the party
he was also neighboors with Elizabeth Freeman which so ?? y does everyone know eachother
so his real name wasn’t Paul Revere, it was originally Apollos Rivorie
plagiarized the “Bloody Massacre” painting from Henry Palham who still doesn’t get recognition for his work.
some guy stole his bones thinking everyone would be interested but no one cared so they remained in his attic
here is his private journal where he talks about
him sleeping through valentines day
him lighting himself on fire trying to light a candle with a gun
“I did go to bed at 10, promising myself a rich sleep. Lay two hours vigil; that cursed one single dish of tea! Note: My bed had undergone a thorough ablution and there were no bugs or insects. Got up and attempted to light candle, but in vain; had flint and matches but only some shreds of punk which would not catch. Recollected a gun which I had on my late journey; filled the pan with powder and was just going to flash it when it occurred that though I had not loaded it someone else might; tried and found in it a very heavy charge! What a fine alarm it would have made if I had fired! Then poured out some powder on a piece of paper, put the shreds of punk with it and after fifty essays succeeded in firing the powder ; but it being dark, had put more powder than intended; my shirt caught fire, the papers on my table caught fire, burnt my fingers to a blister (the left hand, fortunately); it seemed like a general conflagration. Succeeded, however, in lighting my candle and passed the night till 5 this morning in smoking, reading, and writing this.“
him having an umbrella with a knife in the handle and attacking someone with it because they told him to put out his candle
“As I was writing the concluding line of the preceding page last evening (about 1 o'clock) an ill-looking fellow opened my door without knocking, and muttering in German something which I did not comprehend, bid me put out my candle. Being in no very placid humor at the moment, as you see, I cursed him and sent him to hell in French and English. He advanced and was going to seize the candle. My umbrella, which had a dirk in the handle, being near me, I seized it, drew the dirk, and drove him out of the room.“
literately hit his head on the same pipe twice what a mess
“i mounted to the housetop to see the state of the combustibles. on the way beat out my brains against the stove-pipe. after viewing the subject, descended to put on an appropriate dress. on descending, a second brain-beating”
had a huge pimple on his nose that like ruined his life
“from Reeve’s walked on to visit the Donna; but, recollecting my nose, walked home”
there is more if you want me to go further in depth, just ask me
He was also for women’s rights
him and his bro John Adams once had to share a bed and they fell asleep arguing about to leave the widow open or closed
took “air baths” which was when he opened all the windows in his house and sat naked in his bathtub
this davinci code ass bitch came up with a way to manipulate ppl
its called the Ben Franklin effect
its basically saying that someone is more inclined to like you if they do a small favour for you
pefered to date older women than younger ones
he did not want the bald eagle to be the national bird
congress mocked him by reading his diary outloud
him and TJeffs being the bros they were both died on the same day and his last words were “thomas Jefferson still survives” but he was wrong, Thomas had already died 5 hrs before.
went with TJ to the home of shakespeare and they both broke of pieces of his chair to keep
here is a drunk history on TJeffs and John Adams relationship durring the election of 1800 (x)
here is also a video about them going through a drive through (x)
moved people’s outhouses in the middle of the night as a prank
ok so this guy being himself talks p badly about charles Dickenson’s wife and prob cheated in a horse race so he challeges him to a duel. They get to the dueling grounds and they both shoot, Dickinson bleeds out but he was able to shoot Jackson in the chest. But Jackson being Jackson just cant die and he kept the bullet within him for the rest of his life.
here is Jackson’s medical history (x)
and here is info on the duel (x)
ok so just to prove that Jackson can’t die, there was an assasignation attempt on him by Richard Lawrence but when Lawrence went to fire his gun, it misfired, and Jackson started to beat him with a cane.
head of the British Intellegence but was hanged as a spy
everyone loved him so much heres some examples
“Never did a man suffer death with more justice, or deserve it less. There was something singularly interesting in the character and fortunes of André. To an excellent understanding, well improved by education and travel, he united a peculiar elegance of mind and manners, and the advantage of a pleasing person.” –– Alexander Hamilton
“From the few days of intimate intercourse I had with him, which was from the time of this being remanded to the period of his execution, I became so deeply attached to Major André, that I could remember no instance where my affections were so fully absorbed by any man.”
“All the court […] were filled with sentiments of admiration and compassion for him. He behaved with so much frankness, courage and delicacy that I could not help lamenting his unhappy fate. This was one of the most painful duties I ever had to perform.” –– Lafayette
here is the drunk history on andre (x)
here is a post about Andre’s journal (x)
here is a post about Andre’s fam (x)
here is a self portit of him while being held as a spy
this women is just amazing
had no formal education that didn’t stop here from teaching herself how to read and write
raised not one, but two presidents (her husband and her son)
her husband asked fro her advise on political matters
ran across Harvard yard naked
was v gay with John Mulligan
here are some posts that talk about it in depth (x) (x)
the second one is more about what if John Adams knew about Hamilton’s sexuality (bisexual) and used that against him
ok so if you watch TURN you know who this is but if you dont yall gonna learn about my fav
him and Nathan Hale (RIP) were college friends at yale who both argued for women’s rights
ben was also a v big party boy who distracted nathan hale from studying
member of the Federalist party and was a member in the house of reps
was a part of the culper spy ring (which was the first spy ring of America)
if yall want i can go deeper into the spy ring in another post
lead a bunch of ppl called dragoons in the war
this women is also v great
basically single-handledly stopped slavery when she heard an reading of the constitution and realized that slavery was a violation of the “all men are created equal” line.
so she goes to the court and the jury is like well she right tho and slavery is ruled unconstitutional in MA
was the first African american and female to get her poetry published
did what Paul Revere did but better considering she was only 16, it was a crappy night, and had to fight off a highwayman with a stick.
rounded up the American troops for her dad
Here is a drunk history on her (x)
tried to teach Marie Louise how to cook on omlett but failed
The constitutional convention getting lit before signing the constitution
the star spangled banner is based off a British drinking song
if your super into history or just wanna watch some fun things I recommend
