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make me choose: @daniellesdarrieux asked: Lafayette in French uniform or American uniform

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deleted scenes from blade on the feather

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Well, that’s quite a firm handshake you’ve got there.

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“Lafayette valued reputation and glory, but cared little for the power that generally results from them. Having one day been asked who was in his opinion the greatest man of this age: “In my idea,” replied he, “General Washington is the greatest man, for I look upon him as the most virtuous.”

- Baron Johann de Kalb, writing to the French War Department, as quoted in George Washington’s Generals and Opponents : Their Exploits and Leadership (1994) by George Athan Billias, p. 219

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What are your favorite washette moments? Like historically

1) Lafayette getting shot at the Battle of Brandywine and George Washington calling for his personal physician to tend to his wounds, “Treat him as if he were my son.”

2) After finding out that France was siding with American Independence, Lafayette started crying and hugged Washington up and down while he just stood there in shock. 

3) Lafayette getting super, super sick and Washington not leaving his bedside the whole time. 

4) George Washington and Lafayette taking a nap together underneath a tree after the Battle of Monmouth. 

5) Lafayette and George Washington taking one last carriage ride together before Lafayette had to leave to go back to France on his second trip there and Washington is unable to say anything. They hugged each other one last time and then right before Lafayette was getting on his boat a few weeks later, he was given a very emotional letter Washington wrote to him expressing all of his love for him in the whole world. Lafayette thought they would see one another again, Washington thought not; they would never see one another ever again. 

6) Georges Lafayette living with George Washington. 

7) During his last visit to America, Lafayette visiting George Washington’s grave where he told everyone to go away and sat there for a few hours thinking to himself. 

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Founding Fathers Facts - George Washington (2)

In one letter, Lafayette called Washington “the savior of his country, the benefactor of mankind, the protecting angel of liberty, the price of America, and the admiration of the two hemispheres” all in a single sentence.

Also Lafayette about Washington: “Happy, ten times happy will I be in embracing my dear general, my father, my best friend.”

Washington hated being touched and people getting chummy with him so, of course, Hamilton made a wager to Gouvnerneur Morris to go up to Washington, slap him on the shoulder and say “My dear General, how happy I am to see you look so well.” Washington was not pleased and Hamilton lost the bet and had to by dinner for a dozen delegates.

Made Madison stay four days at Mount Vernon to rest since Madison always overworked himself.

The story of Washington playing with his silverware at the dinner table if oft-told but it should be known that the man this information comes from was a leading critic of Washington, and Washington may have been going deaf at the time and thus not sure what to do with himself unable to hear anyone conversing around him.

Washington designated Thursday, November 26, 1789, as the first Thanksgiving of the new nation.

Washington had a precise way of addressing letters with how warmly he felt to the person. “Sir” was used for acquaintances, “Dear Sir” if he liked you a little more, and “My Dear Sir” for his closest friends. He addressed his letters in the 1790′s to Hamilton as “My Dear Sir.”

Washington took in Lafayette’s son as a ward and doted on him greatly.

After his presidency and returning to Mount Vernon, the carriage was full with himself, Martha, granddaughter Nelly, Lafayette Jr, his tutor, a dog, and a parrot. Washington’s response to the pets was: “On one side, I am called upon to remember the parrot, on the other to remember the dog. For my own part, I should not pine much if both were forgot.”

He did love his horses, though, and after the war, his horse Old Nelson who served at Yorktown was sent to pasture to live a life of pampered grazing.

Source: Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow.

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ladies of TURИ: Washington’s Spies

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February 7th

Today Lafayette went to town and bought some flowers for his tent

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February 14th

Today Lafayette wrote a poem for everyone he loves.(Washington, Talmadge, Hamilton, Laurens, and most importantly his wife)

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Extract of a letter from the Marquis de Lafayette to Adrienne de Lafayette [7th October 1793, Magdeburg]

So, my dear heart, the five persons in whom the whole of my affections are centred still live together at Chavaniac, and in conditions of tranquillity which they so richly deserve that I scarce dared to hope that they would be fulfilled! I was sure that not even your wish to bring about my freedom would ever persuade you to take any action, or to speak any words which would be unworthy of you, but the way in which you tell me of all this so echoes my own feelings that I feel a need to thank you. I have associated you with stormy destinies which have turned out sadly; but I know that you find some consolation in the knowledge that your love and esteem are the happiest memories of my life.

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Extract of a letter from the Marquis de Lafayette to Adrienne de Lafayette [13th October 1780]

It seems a thousand years, dear heart, since I had any news from you or heard anything about my children. Give them a thousand thousand kisses from me, and tell Anastasie not to forget me, because I love her with all my heart. As to our poor little George, I can scarcely expect him to know anything about me. […] Farewell, farewell, dear heart. When shall I be permitted never to use that word except with the certainty of seeing you the moment after? When shall I be able to give you a thousand thousand kisses, and to assure you of a love which no words of mine can sufficiently express, and which few hearts are capable of feeling so intensely?

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Useless Fact #21

When Aaron Burr was vice-president he had to ban snacks from the Senate because everyone thought Thomas Jefferson’s macaroni was disgusting. 

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Marie Antoinette in some movies/documentaries

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Pictures from a photo album belonging to a teenage girl attending Dana Hall School in Wellesley, Massachusetts in 1896 - the same time Rachel was a student there.

The circular photos were taken with an Original Kodak camera. The blue images are cyanotypes.

(source: Dana Hall School Memory Project.)