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Okay, this is pretty incredible. A 3D artist, consulting scholars and archaeologists, worked for a year and a half in Blender to create a reconstruction of pre-Columbian Tenochtitlán, complete with the surrounding landscape. It’s staggeringly beautiful, and—at least to me—gives a wonderful impression of the city as a place where people worked and lived and worshiped
HOLY SHIT CLICK THROUGH THIS IS INCREDIBLE
Col Richard Kidder Meade was my GGGGG grandfather. I’m 58 and am a native of Virginia. I have a very clear family tree of our family connection. My Aunts are members of DAR and used Meade for their link to having a relative in the Revolutionary War. I found your blog when using Google to get more info on my Pops lol.
Hello! I’m not surprised you found me lol i hope my blog has been enlightening in some way! I’m pretty sure this is probably the most concentrated collection of information about him out there. I’m now feeling a little guilty my grad school crash and burn out + ADHD kept me from having the motivation to finish parts 2 and 3 of my info dumps on everything I ever found on Col Meade. I’m glad you said something! I’ve always wondered if anyone related to him would ever see any of the things that I have managed to find about him.
What date was Richard kidder Meade promoted to Lt. colonel? Was he a Major at any point?
The rank of Lt. Colonel came with the promotion to aide-de-camp, so he was promoted the day he joined staff, March 12, 1777 [x]
He was elected captain of a newly formed company in the 2nd Virginia on October 24th, 1775 [x]. He was then appointed straight to Lt. Col. on November 13th, 1776 by the Virginia House of Delegates to lead one of the new battalions, but he respectfully declined the position in a letter read by the House of Delegates on December 2nd, 1776. [x, x] He then gained a (initially) non-line command version of the Lt. Colonel rank anyway by being appointed aide-de-camp (which, coincidentally, was a position that opened up Because he turned down the appointment to head a battalion when one of Washington’s aides at the time, George Baylor, was offered the position in his place [x]).
Not knowing the contents of the letters from Hamilton that Meade wanted to keep so private that he stood in a chimney to read them so no one could even glimpse them over his shoulder will haunt me until the day I die.
Was reading my own posts and saw a tag where I was raging about the Hamilton’s Revolution Book again. I forgot about that book and for that brief period of time i knew happiness but seeing the words “Hamilton’s Revolution” just now have refilled me with inconsolable rage
Btw I’ve fallen down an aides-de-camp rabbit hole, mostly based on Arthur Leftkowitz’s work. Is that a good source? Cuz I’ve used it to start constructing a VERY rough timeline of the aides’ hiring and leaving.
Sorry i’m late but yes! That’s basically the aide-de-camp research bible. There are things he gets wrong and things he’s missing and that’s to be expected tbh because of how old the book is but it’s the most complete published text on the aides-de-camp currently out there
Fandom Hamilton: works non-stop to the point of damaging his health and relationships
Canon Hamilton: pretended to be asleep to avoid the many duties awaiting him as an aide-de-camp
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Said i’d start working then immediately got sucked into playing fire emblem three houses again instead whoops. And now i’ve realized i’m out of grad school and no longer have access to a lot of my academic sources i was working with because i forgot to follow through on downloading them all. Pain
My aide-related ask: I've been meaning to try to find a simple timeline of all the aides and the dates they held the position, maybe also quick info like age and where they were from/why they were aides at all. Do you know if something like that exists? I'm sure I can probably (I could be wrong) find a list, but before I throw hours at Google, then at a color-coded, hand-drawn timeline I inevitably have to start over when I misspell a name, I wondered if you knew of a resource I could go straight to. Thanks!
The short answer is no.
I have seen one list full of incorrect information in a book published decades ago. Good news for you, i was working on one before my hiatus. I’ll make it priority number one to finish! I’ll be sure to add in some of the other info you were wanting. Why they were aides isn’t an easy question to answer, though, but if i do know i’ll be sure to make note of it if you could clarify what exactly you mean by why they were aides
A year after leaving i’m finally recovering my motivation to do writing and research since grad school destroyed every drop of it I had. Going to start going through and re-reading a lot of my posts and sources because the file cabinets in my brain have started rusting shut but i plan to get back to work on some of my long drafts again
What all do you know about Washington’s aide William Grayson?
It has been years since i got this ask that this has been sitting in my drafts. So rather than letting it continue to sit i’m just going to publish it now as it is. I’m very busy but if i find myself with the time and energy now that i am out of grad school I will come back with a part two. But it has been So Long that my mental file cabinets full of information about the aides has rusted shut so i’ll have to go back through all of my material again to refresh myself and relern where all of my research is because past me was very very bad at organizing things for posterity rip. But it looks like i hit a good stopping point on his life when i was working on this back in the day. A quick summary: William Grayson officially joined Washington’s staff as an aide-de-camp on August 24th, 1776 [x] and served until he, like most of Washington’s staff at the time, was awarded a line command and given orders to raise one of Congress’ 16 Additional regiments in January of 1777. He would go on to become one of the first two U.S. senators from Virginia. I’ll be going in-depth below the break since this is a little bit of a monster:
Happy belated 274th birthday to this dude
I got dreamy, sounds about right
On brand lmao
Hello I saw your old(?) post about Valley Forge’s ceiling and great now I wanna cry too
It is old. I think i posted that like 3-4 years ago now 😂 i want to go back and cry without my parents there to rush me and to chat about the aides with someone. One day.
I got an ask about one of the aides i hadnt talked about on this blog yet years ago that i put like two weeks of work into before I got permanently busy but it looks like I reached a good stopping point in the guy’s life so I might post what I have of it from my drafts today after i double check the links all still work and then make a part two later because no way i’m leaving such a long post in my drafts forever.
George Washington, snappy as ever, according to an anecdote [x]
I have started the JPJ movie and I already have one complaint: John Paul Jones’ hair is not nearly long enough.
