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List of Bookmarks

  1. Public Bookmark 14

    Summary

    All the awkwardness of seeking a volunteer for an attempt, which every soldier was convinced was as good as asking a man to cast away his life to no purpose, naturally recommended Colonel Hamilton's offer; in any case, Washington allow'd himself to be persuaded, and the operation was carried out an hour later, in a deserted and fallow field some half a mile from the encampment.

    21 May 2012

  2. Rec 1

    Summary

    Loving and hating Thomas Jefferson is easy, if you're a Hemings.

    27 Apr 2012

  3. Public Bookmark 3

    Summary

    In which Washington and Hamilton are driven by necessity to seek shelter together.

    6 Apr 2012

  4. Public Bookmark 1

    Summary

    Jefferson, Adams and Franklin come to a deeper understanding of their feelings for each other in the Marquis de Layfatte's bathroom.

    21 Feb 2011

    Notes

    Horrifying. And amazing. And apparently historically inaccurate in many ways, but I can't help but think that it communicates something really profound about our Founding Fathers. (Namely, that they were ugly. Especially Franklin.)