I'm gonna have breakfast with peg Egan
Benedick's my favorite people in the
whole world he gets these papers that
Benedict Arnold betrayed him and he very
famously says whom do we trust now
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the war the Revolutionary War Burr and
Hamilton start their respective war
careers and burr is a really
distinguished war career like kills a
lot of British dudes has an amazing sort
of run meanwhile George Washington asks
Hamilton hey be my aide-de-camp
aide-de-camp is like a fancy word for
secretary no no no I'm good I want to
fight I want to fight cuz that's how I'm
gonna rise up in Washington sight mother
like come work for me it's paperwork
sure but you're gonna be at the center
of the action
you're gonna be in the guy in with the
guy who knows best and Hamilton does his
political calculus and says okay so
Hamilton writes his letters Hamilton
writes letters to Congress this whole
time all Hamilton wants is a command
Hamilton's just sort of tugging on the
sleeve being like right can I can you
just give me like a bunch of dudes and
like I promise I'll be so good at this
and Washington's like now just stay
aide-de-camp but they go through some of
the toughest trials of the war together
it's it's Hamilton in Washington and in
Hamilton finally goes I quit now and
Washington aware of what a sort of
gifted but troubled kid animals it is
says all right you're gonna lead these
troops to do this very specific thing in
the Battle of Yorktown hopefully this is
our last battle anyway but like you will
be able to say you let a command and so
Hamilton goes into it like with
ridiculous gusto he's like he
jumping ahead of everyone being like ah
like he's like showboating like he's
totally showboating okay I'm a lean
forward Harrogate
oh I'm drunk
hello hello I'm Craig instead and today
we're gonna talk about George Washington
Crossing the Delaware River on Christmas
Day so it's the end of the year 1776 the
Continental Army is camped out on the
shores at the Delaware River in
Pennsylvania George Washington is like
the Continental Army is it seems
hopeless
across the river in Trenton New Jersey
is the Hessians the Hessians are German
mercenary soldiers of the British Empire
and like hey man we're cool
and we make in Zamani on December 23rd
Washington brings General Hugh Mercer
who's a Scottish general and general and
Captain Alexander Hamilton George Rogers
like look we have to attack the British
on Christmas night they're gonna be
trying to give me burping you know
eating that's the night that the
least expected so we get we have to move
we gotta go it's a surprise attack
so Mercer is like you know he's Scottish
guy so you know we don't have munitions
no what do it
think about Sean Connery Mercer is like
well we can't do is now we don't have
the provisions and Alexander Hamilton's
point of view is hey
that's exactly why we need to attack
because the Hessians have infinite
musician the musicians they have
infinite infinite infinite munitions and
we can capture all that so all right
well this is what's going down we got
5,000 troops we're gonna cross the river
it's like 300 yards wide uh all right
yeah we have to go full force on attack
which is fighting against the British
with their hired Hessian German an army
so the Germans so the Germans all
right so it's a German Christmas
December 25th 1776 they're all
celebrating aids
this is celebration this have sausages
and sauerkraut
they're being festive they're drinking
eggnog that's exactly what the Germans
were doing back to the three platoons
they all set sail across the Delaware
River mercer's Washington Hamilton
Mercer it's it's it's too much snow too
much ice you have to back off Jesus told
me so
so they back off you know Hamilton's
balls the walk we got to get a cross
there man we got to help Hamilton oh we
gotta help Washington can't do it man
it's too much snow too much ice too much
it's too cold
Washington says we're getting across
this river do
everyone knows the story from the
painting the painting is like a pretty
picture of this there was a lot more
grimy and dirty than painting it's the
winds man blowing 60 70 miles an hour
little tiny iceberg smashing up against
its primitive boats that are made out of
cheap pine wood that's been mailed
nailed together with garbage nails it's
horrible
some of the soldiers have towels on
their feet they don't have shoes and
they're thinking hey man this is
Christmas I should be eaten in
gingerbread man Washington's like hey
man it's the birth of our nation that
this is the birth of our nation I mean
it really is hey man the drink they roll
up up um Shore Trenton New Jersey George
Washington looks at the Sun and he's
like hey we're late let's let's do
this Washington and his soldiers march
into the fort of Trenton and sure
catch the entire Hessian military
off-guard they start attacking the
Hessians hey Merry Christmas mother
they're not met with much resistance
they're like well wait we need to fight
but we're kind of drunk and we're kind
of like mistletoe and jingle bells so by
the time the battle was over Washington
had captured over a thousand Hessians
and only four Continental Army troops
had died and then they look there's all
these supplies and then in the corner
there's a pile of rum they all start
pounding rum getting drunk
so when they took these Hessian soldiers
back across the river after capturing
them a lot of them were drunk just put
him on boats and people are like falling
off shit-faced trying to get it it's as
so this is the first major victory for
George Washington and his Continental
Army and it made an announcement to the
entire world that hey this Continental
Army is forced to be recognized you
can't you can't underestimate them
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Benedict Arnold was a general in the
American Revolution he's a hero of
Saratoga
but the Continental Congress promoted
five other generals and not Benedict
Arnold Benedict Arnold was very bummed
out by that so anyway
Peggy says sweet hot you deserve to be
backed by the government that you belong
to you know the British would appreciate
you they would love you also my family's
British Benedict's like no no no no I'm
not gonna I'm not gonna defect to the
British side that's insane George
Washington is my daddy kind of Peggy
says look I have a friend in the British
Army John Andre Benedict's like it's
like I aired once boyfriend Perry is
like well I mean Benedict if you really
want to be with me be more confident and
Benedict's like yeah yeah I am going to
betray the United States because I love
you and I'm going to prove to you that I
am not jealous and makes love to his
wife and she's like 11 I love being a
spy this is so great because I love
drama and Peggy Shippen like what an
adventure she's sheltered and titled I
have this whole imaginary chorus of
women they're like don't say those like
but she's
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Peggy says you write me letters I'm
going to pass them on to John Andre
so Benedict writes letters which are
really passionate they're like Oh Peggy
I love it
did I get to do with you because he
knows that John Andre is going to get
them also the Continental Army is going
to West Point also I love you and I love
you I love you so they're passing
letters back and forth back and forth
back and forth and eventually Benedict
tells dawn Andre okay I'm gonna give you
the information on how to attack us I'll
tell you everything
also I'm going to invite George
Washington to my house so you can take
them if you want like his friend no yeah
sex sucks so much so George Washington
the head of life the head of the entire
Continental Army is we good I'm gonna
have breakfast with Peggy Ann Benedict's
my favorite people in the whole world he
gets these papers that Benedict Arnold
betrayed him and he very famously says
whom do we trust now I'm too drunk um he
goes to the house Peggy meanwhile rips
off half of her clothes she's holding
her six-month-old Peggy says yeah you
are sent here to kill my baby baby
killer you're here to kill my baby and
he's like oh my gosh you're crazy you're
so Kay no he's just like a women with
their hysteria she's crazy right now but
she's absolutely I can say without a
doubt that she is innocent she was she
was she was brilliant she was great she
wasn't great she's bad
it's the American Revolution Washington
troops are freezing to death they said
Washington you don't know what you're
doing everybody around us is dying they
don't have anything to eat they are
freezing cold what are you gonna do
Washington says I'm gonna talk to my
buddy Ben Franklin because I don't even
know but Franklin was just partying in
affairs
it's very Franklin learns of this
Prussian war General von Steuben he was
trained by the King of Prussia Ben
Franklin says hey von Steuben why don't
you come to California no Ben Franklin
says why don't you come to America and
fight for us and von Steuben's like look
I already got kicked out of pressure for
being gay I'm okay here in Paris it's
okay to be gay in Paris in Paris is like
not okay to be gay in Paris we're about
to kick you out if I Steuben says check
please Giovanna Simon shows up with
cooks and butlers he's dressed to the
nines he's brain furs he's got a dog he
says hey I'm von Steuben he looks at all
of General Washington soldiers and he
says look at this group of dogs they're
dying they're starving they have no
ammunition no love
the soldiers are like I don't like this
guy George why he says no no give me a
chance give me a chance give a chance
and von Steuben's like I am gonna whip
you guys into
new coaches in town vice treatments
that's training the soldiers running
through the ranks he's stretching into
the stretchers he's yelling and
impression then they go what's he saying
Washington is like boy the guy doesn't
even speak English so he says blah blah
blah blah blah blah blah and they hear
blah blah blah blah blah blah what are
we gonna do but guess what young captain
shows up Ben Walker he says I can
understand all the blob of loss I speak
Russian
and I can help the american understand
him so is the bowel springtime no it's
battle hill no it's the Battle of Baron
Hill these terrified kids are just
crushing it as troops start beating
battle after battle using the caches of
von Steuben to use the bayonets they had
all clean teeth and they won the war
Washington said von Steuben you live
with something I say Ben Walker
Washington said I'm gonna give you a
house to live in and I want you to live
with that guy Ben walk Ben walk that guy
I will grant you the most beautiful love
ever so the army used von Steuben's
tactics for 100 years they called the
blue blue blue but that that's why we're
here safe so if I Steuben saved the
world
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