john-andre:
- came to america illegally, against the rules of the king, disguised as a pregnant woman
- didn’t tell his wife that he was gone until after he was sailing away
- got captured and brought back to france again, escaped on a cargo ship and bought all of the cargo to keep the ship from stopping
- was raised on a farm because after his father died his mom fucked off to paris without him
- got laughed off the dance floor by marie antoinette once
- after the revolution he came to america and people were making gloves with his face on them
- he refused to kiss the hands of ladies wearing these gloves because he didn’t want to kiss himself
- named his only son georges washington de lafayette
- named his daughter marie antoinette virginie de lafayette and called her virginie after washington’s home state
- fought in the revolution for free because he loved america that much
- napped with george washington under a tree once while using washington’s coat as a blanket
- he was super tall especially for the time, like 5'11"
- became fluent in english within a year of arriving in america
- found out about the revolution from king george’s cousin, who was complaining about the revolts at a dinner party
- is buried under american soil and a little american flag flies over his grave to this day because he had it imported from bunker hill
- he didn’t have to help us but he did it that was nice
- and then we went and fucked up the country anyway
- we need to fix it for him
(via hamiltonandlaurensbothlikedguys)
