American Historical Trivia

Founding Father Median

(I love having 10$ bills solely because I get to look at A's face, look how pretty he is!)

I don't think a lot of people realize that the American Revolution was not fought by some crotchety old men in powdered wigs and uniforms, it was mostly teenagers who fought dirty and God dammit believed in their country.

I love that. I'd like to think I would have been like these kids who had so much faith in the idea of liberty when it virtually had never been viewed as the Continentals viewed it. They had so much trust in a rocky- at best- idea of Democracy. (Despite, that I am a girl, I would like to think I would have helped in the Revolution.)

Now keep in mind, these soldiers were just kids! They were young and didn't want their minds to always be on the war (much to Daddy Washington's disapproval, I'm sure).

19 year old Alexander Hamilton is no exception.

So, this story is kind of hazy, because generally people were keeping accounts of the war instead of Alex's mischief; but, the bits of this story we do know is a great tale.

(I read about this ages ago and currently cannot find anything on it again; so, I caution you that these facts may not be precisely accurate, but the common idea is true.)

Okay, so this is how it went down. Alexander hated this one guy who was a very prominent figurehead of his town. Alex must have known him from dinner parties or something (they had a lot of those back then).

Alex, being the deceiving stuck-up kid he was, decided to turn his dislike for the man into actions. I have no idea why he did this, but ALEXANDER FUCKING HAMILTON CONVINCED THIS MAN HE COULD SPEAK TO GHOSTS.

LIKE HOW?

HOW THE FUCK DID THIS MAN NOT UNDERSTAND HE WAS BEING PLAYED?

Although, kudos to Alex for succeeding in convincing this guy, though there's no way this guy was anything but a moron.

So, apparently this guy went around and was like, "Holy shit, Dave, do you know that Alexander Hamilton guy? He can talk to ghosts!--I know right-- Oh, John! John come here, I have to tell you something!"

And that is the (crappily told) story of how Alexander Hamilton accidentally convinced an entire town he could speak to ghosts.

Could you just imagine Alex getting word of this while back at camp. Like a soldier runs up to him and tells him, and Alex is just like, "Wha- what the shit? That was a joke. Omfg."