Alright folks, we’re back. I had such a good time tweeting about Hammie Boy’s life that I figured we’d do it again. This one is 817 pages and 67 chapters long, and in the words of my best friend who read this before me: “He lived longer than Hamilton so it makes sense.”

As we take bets as to how many tweets will be in this thread, I’d like to start with a quote from Chernow: “George Washington has receded so much in our collective memory that he has become an impossibly stiff and inflexible figure, composed of too much marble to be quite human.”

Part One: The Frontiersman

(Because there’s so many chapters in this book that we have to break it down further into parts to keep track of what’s going on. Stick with me here).

Uh...we can’t call these Ham Facts anymore so anyone have a new name?

In the meantime, know that George was named after the man who took in his mother when she was orphaned at age 12. He’s probably also the one who set up George’s parents!

Washington was born on February 11, 1732, and I know what you’re saying: Lizzie, no, his birthday is February 22!

And we’d both be right. His OG birthday is based on the old-style, Julian calendar, used in Britain until the mid 1700s. The Gregorian calendar moves it by 11 days

Mount Vernon, known as the home and estate of G.W., was named such after a mostly forgotten British Admiral who led the force in the “War of Jenkins’ Ear.”

His portrait would hang at Vernon. Vernon’s picture that is...not Robert Jenkins & his mutilated ear.