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ciceroprofacto · 2 months ago

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SOA supplementals

Primary Sources / Letters

Papers of George Washington RevWar Series volume 11 (all)

The Army Correspondence of Colonel John Laurens in the Years 1777-1778 compiled by William Gilmore Simms (p.145-162)

The Papers of Henry Laurens volume 13 (p.33-140)

The Political Writings of Alexander Hamilton by Holloway and Wilson (p.7-117)

Backstory / additional context

The First Conspiracy by Brad Meltzer and Josh Mensch (all)

The Great New York Fire of 1776: A Lost Story of the American Revolution by Benjamin Carp (all)

Kidnapping the Enemy by Christian M. McBurney (all)

Strategy, Politics, Staff

Fatal Sunday by Lender and Stone (p.xi-122)

Washington's Secret War by Thomas Fleming (all: p.223-244)

To Starve the Army at Pleasure by E. Wayne Carp (various)

The Valley Forge Winter by Wayne Bodle (all: p.163-220)

George Washington's Indispensable Men by Arthur Leftkowitz (p.15, 45-157)

John Laurens and the American Revolution by Gregory Massey (p.86-106)

Washington's General: Nathaniel Greene and the Triumph of the American Revolution by Terry Galloway (p.165-171)

Wives / Women of the Army

Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Nation by Cokie Roberts (various)

The General & Mrs Washington by Bruce Chadwick (p.209-222)

Martha Washington: An American Life by Patricia Brady (p.118-126)

Caty: A Biography of Catherine Littlefield Greene by John & Janet Stegeman (p.48-59)

Pox Americana by Elizabeth Fenn (p.98-103)

Spies

Revolutionary Spies Intelligence and Espionage in America's First War by Tim McNeese (p.99-209)

General Washington's Spies on Long Island and in New York by Morton Pennypacker (p.1-119)

Washington's Spies by Alexander Rose (all)

Spies in the Continental Capital by John Nagy (all)

George Washington's Secret Spy War: The Making of America's First Spymaster by John Nagy (all)

Allies / foreign officers / special forces

Unlikely Allies: How a Merchant, a Playwright, and a Spy Saved the American Revolution by Joe Richard Paul (all)

Thomas Paine: Enlightenment, Revolution, and the Birth of Modern Nations by Craig Nelson (p.99-145)

Special Operations During the American Revolution by Robert Tonsetic (p.7-149)

Light Horse Harry: A Biography of Washington's Great Cavalryman by Noel B. Gerson (p.1-60)

John Paul Jones: Sailor, Hero, Father of the American Navy by Evan Thomas (p.97-133)

The Admiral and the Ambassador by Scott Martelle (p.49-54)

Tadeusz Kościuszko and Casimir Pulaski: The Lives of the Revolutionary War's Most Famous Polish Officers by Charles River Editors (Pulaski section)

Pulaski: A Portrait of Freedom by R.D. Jamro (p.85-99)

Steuben / Drill

The Drillmaster of Valley Forge by Paul Lockhart (p.105-113)

The Life of Von Steuben by Frederich Kapp (p.120-136)

Baron Von Steuben's Revolutionary Drill Manual: A Facsimile Reprint of the 1794 Edition (all)

Lafayette

For Liberty and Glory: Washington, Lafayette and Their Revolutions by James R. Gaines (p.98-106)

Adopted Son by David Clary (p.154-179)

Lafayette by Harlow Giles Unger (p.65-71)

The Marquis: Lafayette Reconsidered by Laura Auricchio (p.59-64)

#idk if I wanna tag this as sources #because it's not an exhaustive list- just the physical books #Chapter 19 #this is mostly a reference for me #but figured I'd share as a rec for people looking for titles

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mumblesplash · 1 year ago

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i say if you’re gonna have the mysterious entities speak in rhyme you might as well commit (EDIT: part 2!)

(posting an unprecedented Part 1 of At Least 3 bc i actually have the entire script and most of the storyboarding for this done already)

#yknow. got an idea. had a breakdown. bon appetit #this was the creative impulse i was referring to on sunday #my art #my poetry #secret life #secret life spoilers #slsmp #grian #geminitay #briefly #trafficblr #also #mostly bc i am proud of it and partly bc i want people to know it’s on purpose:#grian is not trying to rhyme at all in this part. he is being deliberately unhelpful #he lowkey tries to fuck it up on purpose in that second to last panel but the secret keepers just switch rhyme schemes #the one time he completes an end rhyme is because he lost his temper #anyway yeah this was motivated mostly by me wanting to see if i could do it

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gas-station-chai · 1 year ago

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I ship them but in a "definitely on their 3rd divorce" way

#jencer #tftgs #tales from the gas station #tftgs jack #tftgs spencer #jack townsend #spencer middleton #chai guy rambles #cant find the og for the life of me #but this is referring mostly to shipping canon jack and spencer #and a few aus i guess

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chiliger · 10 months ago

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Growth phase progression of the cadets.

Edit: fixed a typo

(Close ups under the cut.)

#chiligerart #clone cadets #clone tubies #the clone wars #star wars #sw tcw #this line up is mostly for me to use as a reference image #the babus 😌#stay tuned for more cadet content in the future

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welcometogrouchland · 7 months ago

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♫ I do what I want/Crying in the bleachers and I said it was fun/I don't need anything from anyone ♫

(ID in Alt) you guys ever think about your own posts and get upset?? Anyway Damian Wayne I love you I'm so sorry your life is like that

#dc comics #dc #damian wayne #dc robin #batman and robin #alfred pennyworth #dick grayson #bruce wayne #lyrics are ofc from American Teenager by ethel cain #the lyrics are a bit too specific to specifically be a damian song and the verses talk about like. christian church and substance abuse #but thag chorus???? ohhhh baby #its also stephcore btw. to me at least #ANYWAY this took. forever and i did while feeling sick/off in the run up to my period so frankly it's a miracle it got finished at all #but yknow for now im fairly happy w this one. played around w the colours and challenged myself to really put my all into the linework #there's some details here n there that r wrong (failsafes design is. all kinds of wonky) but like. who give a shit #anyway my brain and hands are on vacation for the next few days <3 #btw the blood on damians hands is a reference to the upcoming B&R cover (for 11 or 12 i think?) where damians-#-beating the living daylights out of bane. B&R has mostly been chill n slow so far but these issues...ohhh i am SEATED #uhh anyway yeah <3 #OH WAIT #mine #< haha. art tag i always forget

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killjoy-prince · 10 months ago

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House M.D. but it's when Wilson says House's name

#house md #james wilson #prince's talk tag #finally!!! it's done! this and the house version took almost two weeks to do #first off thank you to the clinic-duty team on livejournal for making the transcripts for these episodes #because this video would be near impossible to make without their clear transcripts. I hope y'all are doing well #ive been reading a lot of fics with these two and i see how the authors have the characters refer to each other in their fics #and that got me wondering how much do they say each other's name in the show and how do they refer to each other #since this is the wilson video ill put his stats here #s1 was 11 times s2 was 18 s3 was 45 s4 was 32 s5 was 41 s6 was 60 s7 was 47 and s8 was 48 #in total he says his name 302 times. Mostly refers to him just by House #the only time I've heard him say his first name its when he's being professional or when he's really angry (and that one time he proposed)#and even then it's always the full name not just the first name #the only instance I've seen him use just his first name was on that note he put on House's xmas gift that we see in season 5 #and as much as I wanted to put that moment in here he never actually says the contents of the note out loud so i had to leave it out #but what surprised me was he says House's name more than House says his name #especially when the earlier seasons didn't have him say his name as much

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giantkillerjack · 1 year ago

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Me: hm, I want something to put on the TV as background noise... Huh. Looks like YouTube is recommending something called The Last Unicorn. That's perfect, it's probably some old shitty animation that has aged poorly! I can watch it ironically!

Me, 2 hours later as the credits roll: *crying, cheering, buying the book, composing the songs*

Me, 2 weeks later: So I have compiled all of the quotes from the book that I think could make good tattoos, and also, HOW HAVE I NEVER LEARNED ABOUT HOW THE LAST UNICORN FUCKING SLAPS??? This gay-ass little fairytale fed my soul! Watered my crops! Transed my gender! Can't believe I heard of this story from youtube recommendations, of all places!!

#original #the last unicorn #tlu #peter s beagle #molly gru #schmendrick #schmendrick the magician #two of my favorite characters in anything right there in the center of the story! and I'm glad I saw the film first!#my reading ability has diminished due to trauma disability etc. but it seems like having a visual reference actually really helped!#no wonder i only ever want to read fan fic! turns out reading is not actually Superior to other types of Storytelling. it's just different.#to say otherwise is snobbishness I have been eminently guilty of in my life!#but like it is easier for me to consume tv and movies and that is fine actually. also that's why I'm doing a graphic novel lol #because i wanted to make something i would actually be able to read if i found it at a library. altho the audio book IS gonna be bomb #the audiobook is for visually impaired readers and anyone who wants or needs it! accessible stories for everyone! yeah!!#my gender was already transed but now I've gained an ADDITIONAL gender! which one? I'll never tell 😘#i am so powerful i have so much fuckin gender. my wife has no gender. and she is equally as powerful.#and also she has STUDIED THE BLADE #mostly zoro's blades from One Piece #normally YouTube recommends me shit movies like idiocracy or smth this is like if every day ur cat brought you a piece of rotten food and #then one day it brings you a BEAUTIFULLY ANIMATED TALE FEATURING MY BELOVED TWINK FUCK-UP WIZARD FRIEND AND MY ALL-TIME HOMEGIRL MOLLY GRU #and also it's soft and beautiful and funny and fucking weird!! i wrote melodies to the songs in the books on my ukulele

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ihavesomejays · 3 months ago

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text transcription:

Many springs ago, I perceived a sea of flowers upon a lake. I thought to myself that those fleeting colors held indescribable beauty.

The next time I perceived those colors was many years later, when the medic’s tent had blinded me to all but red. The radiance of that shining star was lost on my eyes.

Now, my eyes no longer perceive the subtleties in the colors around me.

But I am content.

For I can now see the most brilliant colors in my universe.

anyways yeah why did they fucking do that to jiaoqiu bro

the planning for this experimentalish comic is under keep reading

#artwork #digital art #hsr fanart #art #hsr #honkai star rail #jiaoqiu #hsr jiaoqiu #moze #hsr moze #feixiao #hsr feixiao #moqiu #feiqiu #moze x jiaoqiu #feixiao x jiaoqiu #it can go either way tbh depending on how you read it but i personally don’t ship feiqiu #this was mostly just jiaoqiu character exploration #hsr 2.5 #hsr spoilers #just in case because i actually got fucking spoiled on the plot twist and it made me so mad #experimental comic #being in art school for like 3 weeks really experimentalpilled me #(i just wanted to do something other than lineart lmao)#painted it almost entirely with a singular noise brush because i was going for those memories vibes + jiaoqiu’s blind now #so i was trying to give the impression that he can’t see clearly #for anyone who’s about to like idk get on my ass about depicting blindness wrong #i based all of these visuals off of what i see when i take off my glasses #ill do more research when i wanna get in depth with this concept but for now my -300 degrees eyes are gonna have to be the reference #im imagining jiaoqiu with prescription bottlebottom glasses now

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shevr · 7 months ago

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good news : i might try to draw some more again this month bad news? : its mostly from trying to 10+ years later join the Equestria Daily NATG so its really just gonna be horses. might not share it all

also as mentioned this is drawn after the very very good picture from this post

#shevr #my lines #dont get too attached to it my plan for all this is to do cardboard paintings and to every paint over the previous day's one #and in that also i hope this quality of picture is satisfying to y'all bc im not sure i can do better #and the original will be gone so ! eh well #on a diff note the Nyegh! is a very specific reference to the most recent stream from australian comedian tom walker.#it is funny to mostly me and some other idiots #ahahahahah anyway yeayyyyy yayyye i hope i'll also manage to kickstart some more general drawing energy over that month !#if i manage it yanno !!#we'll see !!! hope you can enjoys horses in the meantime ! nyegh !

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ludinusdaleth · 10 months ago

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"It's gonna be okay, right?"

'I don't know, but thank you."

"For what?"

"Weeks, months, I dunno, how long have we been together?"

"I don't know, months?"

"Feels like... years."

-Critical Role Campaign 3, Episode 87, "Doorways to Darker Depths"

#critteredit #criticalroleedit #cr spoilers #critical role #imogen temult #orym of the air ashari #mine #campaign 3 #laura bailey #liam o'brien #i know the years line is mostly likely reference to how fucking long this war has felt like to them #but to me my first thought was..... youve always known each other. through caleb & jester. through vax & vex. through & beyond exandria.

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journey-to-the-attic · 7 months ago

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uh oh

#art #obey me #obey me raphael #jtta ik #forcing myself to have a go at shading things. if i never try i will never get better!!!!!!!#mind if i brain dump real quick bc i've been thinking lately about how i refer to myself as a writer but never an artist #whenever i mention it i always say 'i draw stuff' or 'illustrate' instead #it's not like i feel particularly inferior about how i draw bc of course! i haven't gotten around to even touching an art course!!#but to me 'artist' encapsulates a sort of abstract skill and i always feel like i draw much more objectively #it is just The Thing That I Am Depicting and that's prob why i have such trouble with shading and any non-literal colouring #the best thing i've made so far is that one satan thing and i have yet to remember how i managed that #anyway i've been trying some new stuff out!! slowly but surely #that's all mostly stuff i'll keep to myself though #anyway if you actually read through all that Thank you i love you

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7cfc00 · 1 year ago

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Cast: Hermie the Unworthy as Theatre Kid with Identity Issues!

#dndads #dndads fanart #dungeons and daddies #dndads s2 #hermie the unworthy #hermie unworthy #dndaddies #dndads season 2 #dndads quest #dndads hermie #words are by me... came out of my brain box #also it rhymes if you pronounce the “a” in “mask” like you pronounce the “a” in “parts”#anyway. i was just trying to get at the idea of him making his roles his identity... thinking that he is simply this group of parts #when in reality he's more than the sum of it... hes a person beyond his personas yknow #i really like how this turned out. tbh mostly because i took my own sweet time... thats why i've been gone for so long LOL #hermie has such a wealth of visuals behind his character man theres SO MUCH to explore... i didnt even manage to fit in all the references #that i noted down

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prolibytherium · 2 months ago

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Just in general I think trying to look to pre-late modern period history for validation of LGBT+ identities is an absolutely useless venture. Every single underlying human experience defined through the lens and framework of LGBT identity has always existed, but it's impossible to pin down Exactly who and what a figure might have been if they existed in this contemporary context and decided to self identify via these labels.

It's also a wildly reductive lens that flattens the complexity and variety of how sex and gender has been constructed across time in different cultures, how sexual norms have varied, etc. This is not a constructive approach to learn about history and you're never going to be able to fit historical figures neatly into little identity categories.