#john laurens

[unicornsaures]

no..theres no way..*rubs eyes aggressively* is that tumblr artist unicornsaures drawing..musical lams?

[alexanderhamiltonhasafatass]

Stares at the wall

[my-deer-friend]

In the midst of his feverish diplomacy [at the court of Versailles], Laurens found time for personal matters. During his year in London, he had married "Patty" Manning, the daughter of his father's English partner, and she had delivered their daughter after he sailed to join Washington's army; although Mrs. Laurens had made plans to join her husband in America, her delicate health made the journey impossible. Hearing that Laurens was coming to France, she and her daughter smuggled themselves across the English Channel and joined the young colonel in Paris. It was a long, difficult journey, made at considerable risk. [...] Young Laurens himself was engaged in fundamental sabotage of His Majesty's hopes of victory; yet in the finest traditions of romance, Patty Laurens ignored the English spies and informers swarming in Paris and in the channel ports and rushed to her soldier.

Thomas Fleming, Beat the Last Drum (2016)

Truly amazing how you can just Say Things in a published history book. 🥲

There's a lot that's factually wrong here, but perhaps the most frustrating is the fanciful narrative that Martha Manning Laurens went off on a daring, romantic jaunt to see her husband. The reality was far from that, even from what little remains of her historic footprint, so it's a weird angle to spin.

Martha had spent over four years in London caring for their daughter on her own and making repeated pleas to travel to America. John found a reason to rebuff all of these, not because of her "delicate health" but rather on account of the risk of the voyage (which, admittedly, was not trivial). Most likely, his underlying reasoning was more selfish – having his family close by would require him to divide his time and attention, an inconvenince he was not willing to take on when there were more glorious things to do.

Left behind, ignored and dismissed, it is reasonable to conclude that Martha dared the journey to France in a last-ditch attempt to meet up with John and to travel back to America in his company (a plan he could hardly refuse). However, according to Massey, the reunion probably never happened, in part because Martha only learned of John's presence in Paris when he was already wrapping up his mission. He doesn't seem to have bothered to inform her ahead of time, and it certainly didn't occur to him that this would have been a convenient and expedient way to bring his wife and daughter home with him. (This man spent a month on a boat. It's not like he didn't have time to think about this.)

We don't need to – and shouldn't – exonerate John's poor treatment of Martha and Frances by plastering over it with this kind of romantic revisionism.

[dzierzbia]

Hamilton: Jackie, you're like Hephaestion to me!

Laurens: And you're what? Alexander the great?

Hamilton: Well, yes.

Laurens: I would say you're rather Alexander the small.

*sounds of killing*

[winterzz7]

:3

[farbexx]

a sketch from my polish class lmao:')

[lamslover]

It's crazy how I like lams that fuck and have sex almost every week and Hamilton's kind of a twink, but at the same time I like it when they just share soft kisses and tell each other "I love you" 24/7

AND when the whole thing is just angst and they can't fucking have their happy ending.

[iris-echos]

Fanfictions out reading 245 year old really fucking gay letters sent from one founding father to another is in

[myfairmaidenx]

Repost from my insta, (@)laurensmylove (the username was taken here so I adopted my main’s username :)

Just some very stylized portrait stuff of mr John Laurens

[caseykeshui]

Throwback ⭐️ !!!!

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I did watch Hamilton live here in the Philippines, it was so good…it really did bring me back to 2016 🔥 (I FORGOR to post this on the same day I did on insta- holy crap it's been a while...Life can get rlly busy!1)

[unicornsaures]

historical lams sketch for the soul

[badeyesightdog]

[winterflwers]

If i had a nickel for every time an actor from Hamilton voiced a character in Trolls, i'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.

[depressedrevolutionariesinlove]

[anotherria]

[nat-but-free]

Revisiting Hamilton! Man I know the lyrics for the most of the songs even after 4 years thats crazy