{"id":92205,"date":"2016-07-17T17:07:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-17T17:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/07\/17\/more-top-moments-in-early-american-history-2\/"},"modified":"2016-07-17T17:07:00","modified_gmt":"2016-07-17T17:07:00","slug":"more-top-moments-in-early-american-history-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/07\/17\/more-top-moments-in-early-american-history-2\/","title":{"rendered":"More Top Moments in Early American History"},"content":{"rendered":"

anglofile<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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alexanderhammyton<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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– James Madison \u201caccidentally\u201d buys prostitutes for foreign ambassadors <\/p>\n

– Jefferson eating a tomato like an apple at a dinner and everyone rushing off to find a doctor because Americans thought tomatoes were poisonous<\/p>\n

– Washington and Lafayette falling asleep under a tree after Monmouth <\/p>\n

– Washington cursing out Charles Lee after his retreat <\/p>\n

– James Armistead Lafayette, who was a badass spy during the revolution and gave Lafayette vital information which led to the victory at Yorktown. Lafayette freed him and James was so grateful he took Lafayette\u2019s last name<\/p>\n

– Lafayette being given an alligator as a gift and, not knowing what to do with it, regifting it to John Quincy Adams <\/p>\n

– the Constitutional Convention going out and getting turnt two days before the signing of the Constitution, and some of the additional charges being a broken chair, cups, and chamber pots <\/p>\n

– John Hancock being smol <\/p>\n

– Alexander Hamilton\u2019s argument against hanging John Andr\u00e8 basically being \u201che\u2019s too pretty\u201d <\/p>\n

– Aaron Burr sleeping through Valentine\u2019s Day <\/p>\n

– Lafayette naming his ONLY son after George Washington <\/p>\n

– Ben Franklin and John Adams once having to share a room with one bed and falling asleep arguing whether or not they should sleep with the window open or closed <\/p>\n

– Ben Franklin taking \u201cair baths\u201d which consisted of him sitting naked in a bathtub for hours a day <\/p>\n

– Aaron Burr having a knife hidden in the handle of his umbrella, and then LOSING said umbrella <\/p>\n

– John Adams\u2019 kid Charles once ran naked across Harvard Yard <\/p>\n

– Alexander Hamilton losing his check book and having to write the bank of New York for a new one, while also requesting his account balance which he didn\u2019t know, which he wrote in the check book, which he lost <\/p>\n

– Aaron Burr hitting his head on the same pipe twice jfc he\u2019s such a mess <\/p>\n

– Thomas Jefferson getting a terrible headache for two days after behaving awkwardly in front of a girl <\/p>\n

– John Adams naming his dog Satan<\/p>\n

– Alexander Hamilton\u2019s letters to his totally hetero bro\u2122 John Laurens being censored by his descendants <\/p>\n

– George Washington running for the House of Burgesses and getting his constituents totally smashed so they would vote for him<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Okay the last bit was common practice for all politicians in Virginia because if they wanted to win, they had to have the best booze. I remember because once James Madison was like \u201cHow about you elect me because I would be good at this job?\u201d And all the voters were like \u201cHow about you go f**k yourself?\u201d Then he lost.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

anglofile: alexanderhammyton: – James Madison \u201caccidentally\u201d buys prostitutes for foreign ambassadors – Jefferson eating a tomato like an apple at a dinner and everyone rushing off to find a doctor because Americans thought tomatoes were poisonous – Washington and Lafayette falling asleep under a tree after Monmouth – Washington cursing out Charles Lee after his … <\/p>\n

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