Samantha Wilcoxson's Blog - Posts Tagged "18th-century"

31 March 1776 - Abigail Adams wrote her 'Remember the Ladies' letter to her husband, John. The Revolution forced John and Abigail to spend years apart and they wrote 100s of letters to each other, creating one of the best primary sources of life in the late 18th century. This letter has caused some to label Abigail a feminist, but she would be embarrassed that we are reading it at all. She regularly pleaded, 'I wish you would burn all my Letters,' which was a common practice at the time. John would not, writing once, 'The Conclusion of your Letter makes my Heart throb more than a Cannonade would. You bid me burn your letters. But I must forget you first.' Thanks to the infamous stubbornness of John Adams, we can read exactly what Abigail said when she asked him to 'Remember the Ladies.'

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Alexander Hamilton has gone down in history as a torrid adulterer, but was he really covering up a financial scheme?

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America’s War of Independence Was Just One Front in a Global War

"The Second Day of July 1776, will be the most memorable Epocha, in the History of America.—I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated, by succeeding Generations, as the great anniversary Festival."
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When George Washington and his men realized that General Benedict Arnold had fled in the wake of the revelation of his treasonous plot, no man present thought to question the innocence of Arnold's wife, Philadelphia socialite, Peggy Shippen. Alexander Hamilton wrote, 'All the sweetness of beauty, all the loveliness of innocence, all the tenderness of a wife and all the fondness of a mother showed themselves in her appearance and conduct. We have every reason to believe she was intirely unacquainted with the plan.' Marquis de Lafayette agreed. 'The unhappy Mrs Arnold did not know a word of this conspiracy....The horror with which her husband's conduct has inspired her, and a thousand other feelings, make her the most unhappy of women.' Even Washington claimed to have 'every reason to believe she is innocent.'

Why were they all so thoroughly convinced?

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Guest Post by Steve Gantz -->> Benjamin Franklin goes to France

On this day in American Revolution history: 25 October 1774 - the ladies of Edenton decided to prove that women could be patriots too.

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New on the blog: on 14 December 1780, Elizabeth Schuyler married Alexander Hamilton. As far as I know, no hip-hop music was involved.

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Variations on Nancy's story include her spying for the patriots or helping an American spy escape loyalist troops. What is the same in each version of these stories is that Nancy was brave and brutal when it came to dealing with the enemy.

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