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TURИ - Pirate/Black Sails AU

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so my siblings and I are rewatching turn

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Make your own

Tagging: YOU! <3

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Toss a coin for John Paul Jones

John Paul Jones has been lauded as the father of the US Navy since 1775. His influence and leadership were fundamental to the founding of our Navy and in many ways to the success of the American War of Independence.

The tomb of John Paul Jones in the U.S. Naval Academy Chapel's crypt, Annapolis, Maryland

The remains of John Paul Jones were interred in 1906 in a ceremony presided over by President Theodore Roosevelt in the crypt beneath the Naval Academy crypt. Since his death in 1792, John Paul Jones' remains had lain in a grave in France, where he also died.

The Tamanend Figurehead of the USS Delaware, 1817

Now, since 1906, it has been the custom of the Midshipmen of the Academy to deposit coins at his grave to ask and thank him for help in examinations and a successful graduation as well as a successful career. Another helper on campus is the statue of Tamanend, a peaceful Delaware chief of the Lenape Nation, to whom coins are also offered to request his help in examinations.

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Musketeers of the Hessian Infanterie Regiment von Huyn.

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Sketch by Benjamin Tallmadge of Fort St. George

The Battle of Fort St. George (or Fort George) was the culmination of a Continental Army raiding expedition led by Benjamin Tallmadge against a fortified Loyalist outpost and storage depot at the Manor St. George on the south coast of Long Island on November 23, 1780, during the American Revolutionary War. Tallmadge’s raid was successful; the garrison was surprised, and many provisions and prisoners were taken. (x)

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General PSA: I’m totally fine with starting over! If we tried to write together once before and the thread fell flat or got dropped, I’m game to try again. Not all first interactions are going to be golden, and sometimes it takes a few tries for us to understand how our characters might merge together in writing. I’m still interested in roleplaying with you, so feel free to send asks / like my starter calls / hit me up in the DMs!

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"What makes you think I'm chasing after Arnold?" Ben slips out of his overcoat and drapes it heavily across his brother's rake-thin shoulders. He sighed and shook his head, "With the weather how it is, it's unlikely they'll succeed in reaching those Northern forts, let alone capturing them."

Samuel was right about one thing though - Ben would much prefer his brother stay in camp rather than tag along back into the wilderness. He folded his arms as the younger Tallmadge stood and tried to pass himself off as hale and hardy, "I am taking the troop out. There's a few things that I need to check on. You are going to get well."

He wondered if there was any chance that Samuel might actually obey him, or if he'd have to ensure someone was doubling back on their trail to catch the tagalong when he got bogged down in snow drifts...

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There's an eternal ache etched into the marrows of his bones even as he rises from his brother's cot. The shoddy, threadbare jacket that had gifted him shallow comfort on the Jersey is draped over skeletal shoulders. Swallowing down, Samuel attempts to get his coarse and unrefined voice to speak. "You aren't getting rid of me that easy." Standing at, what he hoped to be a fuller height, Samuel amends. "If you're going after Arnold, I-- I am going with you."

Chilled digits are lifted to his lips and are gifted a warming breath. "So-- where are --are we headed."

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“It’s been raining for days.”

“Looks like the rainy season is finally here.”

“Shall I put on a pot of tea?”

“Turn up the heat/put another log on the fire, the rain brought a chill.”

“Close the window, you’ll ruin the flooring!”

“You’re sopping wet.”

“What on earth were you doing out there?”

“Fine, you can come in, but take off your shoes.”

“I don’t need you tracking mud everywhere.”

“The sound of rain is so nice.”

“You’re going out? In this?”

“You can’t go out there, it’s pouring down rain!”

“I like the rain and all, but being stuck inside is so boring.”

“The day would be a lot less boring if you learned how to sit still.”

“I cannot believe we’re stuck in this!”

“Maybe we should find somewhere to take cover until it stops.”

“Does it ever stop raining here?”

“Oh no! The rain ruined our picnic.”

“Want to go for a walk in the rain?”

“Can I have a blanket?”

“Sorry to intrude. This rain came out of nowhere.”

“Look at the sky! The lightning is insane.”

“It’s getting pretty intense out there.”

“A rainy day, warm blankets, a cup of tea, and a book to tie it all together.”

“Let’s go for a walk in the rain.”

“Here, this should warm you up.”

“Come in here before you catch a cold.”

“Ugh, that’s just a silly old wives’ tale.”

“I pity the poor souls caught out in this.”

“Aren’t there any books to read?”

“Rains smells so different in the city.”

“The rain smells better in the countryside.”

“Nothing like the sound of rain to go with a good book.”

“Careful, the tea is still hot.”

-draws on the fogged up windows-

-Flips loudly through book-

-sighs- “It’s so cozy in here.”

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source flintlock musket slowmooooo

bottom gifs are squareified

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TURN | S1E9 Against Thy Neighbor

↳ “A man may believe in freedom from tyranny and not be a rebel or a traitor. If he is not free to make up his own mind that is the worst form of tyranny.”

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turn meme (4/7 scenes) ❤

For never before has love for any goddess or woman so melted about the heart inside me, broken it to submission, as now.

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Turncoat

/ˈtəːnkəʊt/

noun 

a person who shifts allegiance from one loyalty or ideal to another, betraying or deserting an original cause by switching to the opposing side or party.

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Turn: Washington’s Spies, s01e09

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TURN: WASHINGTON’S SPIES (2014-2017)

Our country owes its life to heroes whose names it will never know.

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HMS Nancy

The Nancy was launched in 1789 as a merchant ship specifically for the fur trade. At the outbreak of the War of 1812, the British government seized the merchant ship. Although she was intended as a supply and support ship, according to the description she could mount six 4-pounder guns and six small swivel guns. However, it is unlikely that she was ever so richly equipped.

The wreck of the Nancy, photo by Will

In 1813, under the command of Captain Alexander MacIntosh, the Nancy was forced to retreat to Lake Huron after three American ships attacked her on the St Clair River. She was refitted and wintered at Sault Ste. Marie. In July 1814, an American squadron set sail from Detroit to blockade Fort Michilimackinac. Lieutenant Miller Worsley, the Nancy's new captain, realised he could do nothing against the squadron and instead hid the tiny ship a short distance upriver at Wasaga Beach. Unfortunately, three American ships, the Niagara, the Tigress and the Scorpion, spotted the ship in August and opened a fierce cannon fire. Worsley was determined to fight back, but an American shell ignited his powder and set the Nancy on fire. She burnt out to the waterline and sank, and her crew retreated into the wooded hinterland.

Lieutenant Worsley knew that Fort Michilimackinac needed supplies. He loaded much-needed supplies aboard several dinghies and rowed 360 miles / 579 km to the besieged island. Not content to sit idly behind the fort's protective walls, Worsley led a boarding party that quickly scaled the sides of the Scorpion and overwhelmed the crew. As the unsuspecting Tigress approached, she too was captured. In one fell swoop, the blockade of Fort Michilimackinac was lifted and American naval supremacy broken.

After the war, the sunken hull of the Nancy disappeared from view as the current overturned the charred beams. Over time, a small island formed above the wreck, completely obscuring the ship. It would be more than a century before the ship resurfaced. In 1925, archaeologists discovered the remains of the ship, which were still amazingly well preserved and largely intact. Interest skyrocketed and on 14 August 1928 the hull was lifted and became the centrepiece of the Nancy Island Historic Site.