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Nathanael Greene to his wife, Catharine Greene

"My dear angel" "My sweet angel" “My second self"

Lafayette to his wife, Adrienne de Lafayette

"My dear heart" / "Mon cher Coeur"

Lafayette to Thomas Jefferson

"My dear friend"

Mercy Otis Warren to her friend, Hannah Winthrop

"Honoria"

Hannah Winthrop to her friend, Mercy Otis Warren

"Philomela"

Mercy Otis Warren to her friend, Abigail Adams

"My amiable friend" "My beloved friend" "My much esteemed friend"

Grace Galloway to her daughter, Elizabeth Galloway

"My ever dearest daughter"

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to his wife, Constanze Mozart

"These old family photograph albums bring back memories of all the happy times we had together in that almost unbelievable world before the Revolution."

"We used to see each other quite often either in Germany, or in Russia. I loved my Russian family and I loved Russia too"

"Olga, Marie, Anastasia and Tatiana were all very beautiful. I remember I had always secretly hoped to marry Marie."

"Yet anyone less like an autocrat than my uncle Nicky would be hard to imagine…he was a very, very kind-hearted simple charming man."

"He was never happier than when he was outside playing with his children. I remember he would purchase us all chocolate-ices, and after, settle down with a long book to read quietly in peace"

"And now, all that was finished. All the happy memories were things of the past…"

“The women of the Gauls are not only like the men in their great stature, but they are a match for them in courage as well. Their children are usually born with greyish hair, but as they grow older the colour changes to that of their parents. The most savage peoples among them are those who dwell beneath the Bears and on the borders of Scythia, and some of these, we are told, eat human beings, even as the Britons do who dwell on Iris,​ as it is called. And since the valour of these peoples and their savage ways have been famed abroad, some men say that it was they who in ancient times overran all Asia and were called Cimmerians, time having slightly corrupted the word into the name of Cimbrians, as they are now called.​ For it has been their ambition from old to plunder, invading for this purpose the lands of others, and to regard all men with contempt. For they are the people who captured Rome,​ who plundered the sanctuary at Delphi,​ who levied tribute upon a large part of Europe and no small part of Asia, and settled themselves upon the lands of the peoples they had subdued in war, being called in time Greco-Gauls, because they became mixed with the Greeks, and who, as their last accomplishment, have destroyed many large Roman armies.”

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The continental army is so goofy I can't believe they tried to explode their captain with a gunpowder-filled canteen for fun.