#washington's aides

[a-loose-collection-of-ants]

I'm sure he'll be fine

[on-partiality]

Some Aide boys <3

( I start high school in 3 days btw so if anyone has any advice that'd be great, fyi: Australian high school starts at year 7. Americans do not give me advice for year 10)

[icarusbetide]

are you normal or did you feel melancholy when you realized that the historical figures you think of as the "young generation" due to the time period you engage with, were one day the old ones? because i saw art of lafayette and washington's aides de camp right above art on henry clay's generation and it hit me like a sucker punch.

yes they are all dead white men from over a century ago but damn. alexa, play the times they are a-changin.

[yr-obedt-cicero]

I am happy to have it in my power to mention the merit of your friend Hammy [Hamilton]. He was incessant in his endeavours during the whole day—in reconnoitering the enemy, and in rallying and charging.—But whether he or Col. [John] Laurens deserves most of our commendation is somewhat doubtful—both had their horses shot under them, and both exhibited singular proofs of bravery. They seemed to court death under our doubtful circumstances, and triumphed over it as the face of war changed in our favor.—Independent of any prejudice I may have conceived for Colonel Laurens in consequence of his virtues, I cannot but speak of him in terms of the highest military deserving.—Colonel [John] Fitzgerald also, and Colonel [Richard Kidder] Meade claim the greatest encomiums—The former received a slight contusion. Even the Secretaries caught the general contagion, and had the audacity to put themselves in places of danger, and to share some of the honors of the day. I wish I could do justice to his Excellency [Washington]; but you will hear of his conduct and the singular talents which he unfolded with the effects they produced in the complexionary the combat from other hands.

Source — James McHenry to Elias Boudinot, [July 2, 1778]

James McHenry recalling the Battle of Monmouth, which was only a week prior to the letter.

[livelaughlovelams]

PLEase HELPPPPP

Okay are there any hardcore Meade fans who can tell me who he was?! Ik he was an aide, Ik he was nice, Ik he was in the gang, but I can't find any info on him, or any of the other aides tbh- ANYONE WHO IS A HARDCORE FAN OF ANY AIDE PLS RANT TO ME ABOUT HIM!!!. Where do I look? Any media recommendations? Seriously yall I feel so left out 😭😭

[jack-the-sol]

I'm gonna start calling Washington's aides the FamMili to shorten from Military Family

[floatyteabag]

Breaking my hiatus for 24hrs to ask…

Would anyone read if I started writing again? Just out of curiosity, would people wanna read new ideas or re-written ones?

[spacing-history-queer]

HOLY SHITTITITIITITTTTTTTT

SO I WAS MESSING AROUND AND APPARENTLY THERE IS A BIOGRAPHY ON JOHN FITZGERALD WITH HIS ACTUAL BIRTHDAY

AUGUST 16 1748

IM NEVER GONNA BE OKAY AGAIN

[18th-century-bitch]

What phone case would the Aide de Camp have?

Alexander Hamilton

John Laurens

Richard Kidder Meade

Tench Tilghman

John Fitzgerald

James McHenry

Robert H. Harrison

Marquis de Lafayette

[valley-forge-time]

Hello!!

I'm @classical-music-wh0re and this is a project I'm working on.

What if the aides the camp had a shared tumblr during valley forge?

So if you have any suggestions just send them in submissions or the asks for this blog! It can be anything from shitposts to actual letters and events that happened.

(btw please reblog this post so it gets more reach, thank you :) )

[gillianthecat]

Call to Folks In Or Near Tacoma, WA.

Stand Against Genocide:

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Block the Boat

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At Tacoma Port

Expected Tomorrow (Sunday 11/5) at 3:30 pm.

Update: Monday 11/6 5:00 AM

But arrival time may change, follow links in the instagram post below for updates.

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A US military ship in Oakland will be docking in the Tacoma port next week to pick up and deliver weapons intended for the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza.

URGENT UPDATE: We have received information that the boat in Oakland is currently on its way to Tacoma. We are going to show up and block the boat!

Where: 1123 Port of Tacoma Rd, Tacoma, WA 98421

When: Sunday, 11/5, 3:30 PM

Update: Monday, 11/6, 5:00 AM

Parking is extremely limited near the area, please plan to arrive on time, carpool as much as possible and prepare for the possibility of having to walk some distance.

[a-loose-collection-of-ants]

I'm finally free from exams so uhhhhhhhhhhhh here's another sketch dump

We have fun here

[icarusbetide]

i know washingdad jokes are more of a fanon, musical thing but really. i genuinely believe in my soul that historical washington was the type of guy to hear his aides chant "we want mcdonalds we want mcdonalds" and silently enter the drive-through just to order one black coffee, no cream no sugar and leave.

[yr-obedt-cicero]

Fun historical fact; Washington's aides were able to have a Christmas dinner together. In 1778, while the army was camped at treacherous Valley Forge; George Washington and his wife, Martha, dined at the home of Joseph Reed with the aides;

“[December 25, 1778]

25. Friday. Christmas day, I dined at the Presidents of this state, Genl. Washington & his lady & suit, The presidt. of Congress, Colo. Laurens, my Colleagues, General Whipple & Don Juane,(1) dind. with us.”

(source — Samuel Holten's Diary)

[dontmeantobepoliticalbut]

George W. Bush, the infamously anti-gay and neoconservative former U.S. president who invaded Iraq on a lie, has criticized congressional Republicans for threatening to defund the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), a largely successful African HIV-prevention program that he launched back in 2003. “There is no program more pro-life” than PEPFAR, he wrote.

Though PEPFAR is estimated to have saved over 25 million lives, its funding is set to expire on September 30. Congressional Republicans are falsely claiming that the program promotes abortion and using its re-funding as a bargaining chip in budget negotiations. Republicans have threatened to defund the entire federal government at the end of the month unless they’re allowed to slash military diversity programs and military aid to Ukraine and to increase anti-immigration measures at the U.S.-Mexico border.

“We are on the verge of ending the HIV/AIDS epidemic. To abandon our commitment now would forfeit two decades of unimaginable progress and raise further questions about the worth of America’s word,” Bush wrote in a Wednesday opinion article in The Washington Post.

Bush said that his Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, his White House chief of staff Joshua Bolton, and his senior policy advisor Michael Gerson had advised him to begin PEPFAR. Gerson reportedly told Bush that it would be “a source of national shame” if the U.S. didn’t try to help end the worldwide HIV epidemic.

Bush’s opinion article cited words that Gerson himself had written in defense of PEPFAR in November 2017: “Are Republicans in Congress prepared to squander a legacy of GOP leadership that has won the United States considerable goodwill around the world? Among evangelical Christians, what definition of being ‘pro-life’ does not include saving millions of lives from preventable disease and death?”

Adding his own thoughts, Bush wrote, “There is no program more pro-life than one which has saved more than 25 million lives. I urge Congress to reauthorize PEPFAR for another five years without delay.”

During his presidency, Bush backed a constitutional amendment against same-sex marriage, and used bans on same-sex marriage to help him win re-election in 2004. While he served, 27 states banned same-sex marriage.

Despite Bush’s anti-gay record, PEPFAR was “a sound investment in U.S. security,” Ben Plumley, the former CEO of the now-defunct international HIV organization Pangea, said in a now-deleted interview with Hornet.com. Plumley said the program “generated very significant goodwill towards the United States” and countered “the spread of radical Islam or radical anti-Western attitudes in sub-Saharan Africa.”

Plumley also noted that most HIV transmissions in sub-Saharan Africa are heterosexual, meaning that conservative Republicans could support PEPFAR without worrying about seeming too overtly supportive of the LGBTQ+ community.