working for his late mothers *ahem* landlord. Whose son apparently looked insanely like Hamilton. Moreso than his actual brother #EmpireWatchesHamilton

Mulligan was actually in parenti localis for Hamilton, a supposedly underage immigrant student lodging with his family #EmpireWatchesHamilton

Harvard wouldn't let Hamilton follow an accelerated course of study because of how it went when they let Madison do it #EmpireWatchesHamilton

Ha! okay so this is probably the least accurate portrayal of a character in the play - AND PEGGY like...made a rope of sheets and climbed out her window to elope #EmpireWatchesHamilton

Thomas Jefferson actually figures alongside Hamilton as 'people Angelica may or may not have had an affair with' - they were friends in Paris #EmpireWatchesHamilton

So we don't know when Burr and Hamilton actually met, but I believe Burr is known to have been dispatched with a message to the outpost Hamilton and Mulligan were manning when they decided to steal those cannons. #EmpireWatchesHamilton

Apparently Washington didn't like Burr...no reason...just didn't like him #EmpireWatchesHamilton

So Hamilton knew Mulligan pre-war when he stayed with his family, and they joined a militia together, but Lafayette and Laurens he met on Washington's staff #EmpireWatchesHamilton

And maybe it was because Mulligan was a tailor but apparently they spent a lot of time working out a nice fashionable uniform for their militia #EmpireWatchesHamilton

Hamilton did meet Angelica before Eliza when she visited headquarters. But he couldn't marry her because she'd already eloped with Church and then reconciled with her parents by that stage #EmpireWatchesHamilton

Like LLM says, this makes a better story. But Eliza was like the only sister *not* to elope #EmpireWatchesHamilton

Everyone has read *that letter* Hamilton wrote describing his ideal women to Laurens right? #EmpireWatchesHamilton btw Laurens wasn't at the wedding because he was a POW right then

Okay so there was a schuyler brother. there was absolutely a Schuler brother #EmpireWatchesHamilton LLM forgot him though...and who can blame him when the sisters were so much cooler

haha I dunno if anyone else has watched Turn on Amazon Prime but this and it have given me a vague impression of Washington being surrounded by hothead officers trying to fight duels over his honour #EmpireWatchesHamilton

There were a lot of duels in the revolutionary army...wars were a chance for upward mobility and duels were a way for men to establish themselves as gentlemen #EmpireWatchesHamilton

HA! okay this is one of my favourite lines. According to the account of the duel Hamilton and Lee's real second wrote Laurens was most definitely not satisfied...he wanted to go another round and try for a more serious injury #EmpireWatchesHamilton

Hamilton did not get sent away for the Laurens-Lee duel...he quit in a huff because Washington asked him to move 'rudely' on the stairs #EmpireWatchesHamilton

Washington was probably infertile after an illness caught on a visit to the west indies (we'll come back to *that*) and had a tenancy to adopt people. But Ham had daddy issues and was hella hostile. Lafayette, orphaned rich at 3 *loved* it #EmpireWatchesHamilton

Lafayette was just awesome. He saw Washington as a father and sent his son to him during the Terror in France...which was a bit of a political tangle for the supposedly neutral president #EmpireWatchesHamilton

also @HelenLOHara just told me that his family motto "Cur Non" which roughtly translates as "Why Not?" #EmpireWatchesHamilton #AmericasFavouriteFightingFrenchman

Washington did recall Hamilton despite Alex being a little brat, he may have wanted to get on good terms with him because he rated Hamilton and wanted to work with him to build the new nation #EmpireWatchesHamilton

By the way Laurens was definitely an abolitionist and Hamilton was too, albeit not as committed as his friend. Washington, of course, was a slave owner. Nice nod to that with Washington saying 'not yet' there during Yorktown #EmpireWatchesHamilton

I am..not a Burr fan...but I will say this for him: he was a supported of women's rights by the standards of the day and oversaw his daughter's education as carefully as Ham oversaw his sons' #EmpireWatchesHamilton

Many biographers would say the death of Laurens was an important defining moment for Hamilton, depriving him of an well-connected and like-minded contemporary to work with. He could have been Ham's Madison #EmpireWatchesHamilton

Hamilton and Burr actually were co-counsel in the United States first murder trial. So by this point they had definitely met #EmpireWatchesHamilton

Yeah, chosen for the constitutional convention by his *father-in-law*...and the governor of New York, George Clinton, sent two other delegates with instructions to vote down every motion Ham supported #EmpireWatchesHamilton

Church, an englishman, fled to America after killing his man in a duel I think...and then he made a fortune arms dealing during the revolutionary war #EmpireWatchesHamilton

I'm pretty sure Hamilton proposed presidents-for-life and he was not a fan of elections...in fact he never stood or was elected to an office. He wasn't a bit fan of leaving things in the hands of the electorate. #EmpireWatchesHamilton

Which is actually why you may have heard the term 'Hamilton Electors' after Trumps election #EmpireWatchesHamilton

Everyone knows Jefferson was a twat right? Daveed Diggs definitely does. That "Sally be a lamb, won't you open it" WELL... #EmpireWatchesHamilton

Sally Hemings was his dead wifes sister, raised in slavery by her father and *inherited* by Jefferson, he fancied her and made a deal when she was a teen. She'd be his mistress and he's ensure their children weren't slaves #EmpireWatchesHamilton

Oh you know how you have to be born an american citizen to be president? They'd made a specific exception for those in the United States when they won their independence to allow a very niche group of people a chance of being president...mostly Hamilton #EmpireWatchesHamilton

Philip Hamilton had *so many* little brothers. and sisters. The Hamiltons also took in the daughter of one of his comrades who died and fostered a number of kids. They briefly hosted Lafayette's son when he arrived in america #EmpireWatchesHamilton

Angelica and Hamilton did exchange really flirty letters. Since their families edited them extensively no-one knows if they had an affair but Eliza seemed pretty happy about how close the two were regardless #EmpireWatchesHamilton

Oh and that line "with a comma after dearest" I think thats picked directly from their correspondence? but it was the other way around and it was Hamilton asking #EmpireWatchesHamilton

I love the implication here that Maria Reynolds was a one time thing. Hamilton was such a man-slut that his sister-in-law Peggy joked about it at parties, warning Angelica to watch him #EmpireWatchesHamilton

But then Eliza was pretty much constantly pregnant so it isn't like they weren't on friendly terms too...different times #EmpireWatchesHamilton

Oh this should have come earlier but I was fetching my power, Mulligan was viewed with suspicion as a 'loyalist' after the war until Washington and Hamilton made a fairly elaborate visit to his shop to help him out #EmpireWatchesHamilton

Ham & contemporaries were obsessed with their legacy, its part of the reason Hamilton left his family in relative poverty, he didn't want to be seen as avaricious...esp given Jefferson's accusations of corruption and embezzlement #EmpireWatchesHamilton

Pretty sure by this point Pennsylvania was acting as capital, but the climate was felt to be unhealthy. Especially after yellow fever epidemic in 1793 that nearly killed Hamilton #EmpireWatchesHamilton

Hamilton probably thought he was financially secure when her married Eliza, and he was comparatively, but Philip Schuyler never recovered his losses during the war #EmpireWatchesHamilton

HA! okay "Daddy's Calling" - remember how I said Washington caught an illness visiting the West Indies. Well. There was genuinely a rumour that Hamilton was concieved on that visit. The timelines don't match but it must have driven Ham crazy #EmpireWatchesHamilton

Jefferson did instigate a number of audits trying to expose Hamilton of embezzlement and by the time Washington stepped down, Hamilton had already resigned from Treasury. Though he continued to be a close collaborator with Washington #EmpireWatchesHamilton

Washington's farewell address was very much a collaboration between him and Hamilton, though Eliza had to fight for years to get Madison to acknowledge it #EmpireWatchesHamilton

Okay so Adams was absolutely furious to discover much of his cabinet running things by Hamilton and Ham's response was basically "It's not my fault you're so incompetent people keep coming to me instead" #EmpireWatchesHamilton

So why the Reynold's Pamphlet? He thought it would be better for his legacy to be known to have had an affair than to be believed corrupt. And like the song says, writing had worked for him before. But it probably did kill his chances of the presidency #EmpireWatchesHamilton

My favourite Reynolds Pamphlet fact is that Washington sent Eliza a lamp in support. I even like it more than Christopher Jackson's disappointed dad face. Can we have Jackson give Soo a lamp instead? #EmpireWatchesHamilton

I am pretty sure Eliza already knew about Maria Reynolds, and had done for years...like I said he was well known as a player before and after they married #EmpireWatchesHamilton

it is a deft way to handle our lack of evidence of Eliza's correspondence or his letters to her. She preserved so much his correspondence, including with her sister carefully, yet didn't think her own would be of interest but I'M INTERESTED ELIZA! #EmpireWatchesHamilton

I'm just going to leave this here.... #EmpireWatchesHamilton

Hamilton was involved in a stupid number of duels in his life, either as a primary or a second. Something like 25, though most were resolved peacefully. #EmpireWatchesHamilton

In fact he once called out the entire republican party and one of them accepted the challenge! Ironically Burr smoothed things over and brought about a peaceful resolution #EmpireWatchesHamilton

The most tragic thing about Philip's death was Angelica the younger, Ham's daughter, had a breakdown, regressed to childhood and spent the rest of her life playing the tunes she used to play with her father on the piano, unaware of his or Philip's deaths #EmpireWatchesHamilton

but this is literally a moment words don't reach. Hamilton's extensive writing does not address his son's death. There's plenty in the tabloids though, including likely false claims that Eacker did not fight fair #EmpireWatchesHamilton

right okay so by 1800 Hamilton wasn't that influential politically, its a bit of an exaggeration to say people wanted to know what he was thinking #EmpireWatchesHamilton

But after a hung election Hamilton did endorse Jefferson, it was probably a political move - Burr, a moderate, was a greater threat to the Federalist party's support #EmpireWatchesHamilton

oh and Jefferson saying he loves Adams, they genuinely were friends, or at least frenemies. Which is why Adam's last words were 'Jefferson still survives" - inaccurately, he just hadn't head of TJ's death yet #EmpireWatchesHamilton

Hamilton did send an itemised list of disagreements, he was uncharacteristic in trying to worm his way out of the duel. Like I said, there is some evidence he wasn't a big fan by this point #EmpireWatchesHamilton

Burr wasn't quite as remorseful as portrayed, at least not publicly. In later life he would joke of "my friend Hamilton who I killed" #EmpireWatchesHamilton

He wasn't convicted of murder - nor was he convicted of TREASON after being accused of trying to set up his own country in the southwest. Seriously! went a bit...funny at the end there did Burr #EmpireWatchesHamilton

Madison was the one who finally granted Eliza Hamilton a pension as widow to (technically) a general. She really was a badass who supported abolition and if she'd lived another decade or so she might have seen it #EmpireWatchesHamilton

But like I said, she didn't think her life was worth remembering particularly like her sister's was, so we don't have her letters, I wish we did #EmpireWatchesHamilton

journalist writer sister: so have you got more followers?
me: yes but they're all going to be very disappointed when normal librarian tweeting resumes tomorrow
have a good weekend everyone!

For any Overly Romantic History Geeks out there, you can read Hamilton and Angelica's letters here: https://founders.archives.gov/?q=Correspondent%3A%22Church%2C%20Angelica%22%20Correspondent%3A%22Hamilton%2C%20Alexander%22&s=1111211111&r=1
and his and Lauren's letters here:
https://founders.archives.gov/search/Correspondent%3A%22Laurens%2C%20John%22%20Correspondent%3A%22Hamilton%2C%20Alexander%22
all digitised and made open access by the US national archives
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