I've heard and read some Lams or More accurately Hamilton and Laurens stories, so why not give it a 'shot'
'And have I done enough?'
Also spoiler alert their playing the show Hamilton as themselves and there's a plot twist to the story we know read...
So I literally decided to put the website so here you go...very informative btw. Skip it if you like it won't be really be useful in my future chapters this is out of my own interest anyways onto the biography idk what it's called.
John Laurens March 4, 2020 John Laurens was a soldier and a diplomat in the Revolutionary War. He was also an abolitionist who spent a lot of time and effort trying to get Congress and South Carolina legislature to approve a regiment of black soldiers. He died in a small skirmish at the end of the war.
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John Laurens, painted by Charles Wilson Peale | public domain image, courtesy Wikimedia Commons
Early Life
John Laurens was born in 1754 in Charleston SC to Eleanor Ball and Henry Laurens, a member of the South Carolina legislature. He was the fourth of 13 children, though many died as children. He was raised in an atmosphere of luxury thanks to his father's lucrative business in the slave trade.
Henry Laurens was both one of the wealthiest men in the country and highly esteemed in state and country political circles, and was later elected to serve as president of the Continental Congress.
Education in Europe
After their mother died, John and his brothers were sent to Geneva, Switzerland for their education. It was there he was introduced to the libertarian ideals he later kept about slavery. The Laurens boys then traveled to England to study law. Common Sense, the pamphlet by Thomas Paine, that was wildly circulating the colonies sparked his interest in the war effort at home. He wrote to his father asking to return home, and in spite of his father's refusal, John determined to return.
He traveled home via France, where he met and married Martha Manning, the daughter of one of Henry Laurens' London agents. His marriage to Miss Manning was an honor match. She was nearly five months pregnant at their wedding, and he never returned for her or met his daughter. She did try to meet with him while he was serving as special envoy to France, but her plans fell through.
American Revolution
Battle of Brandywine
Resigned to his son's decision, Henry Laurens used his influence to at least keep him a little safer by securing him a volunteer position on General George Washington's staff in August 1777. John Laurens saw action almost immediately at the Battle of Brandywine. The Marquis de Lafayette wrote about Laurens, "It was not his fault that he was not killed or wounded[,] he did everything that was necessary to procure one or t'other."
Battle of Germantown
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