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The artwork itself dates to 1865 and was done by Oscar Henry Harpel.

The crazy thing is, this happened just mere days after the Declaration of Independence went into effect. I wonder if this singular publicized moment had anything to do with Britain’s decision to send hundreds of warships and 30,000 + British Army troops to New York in August 1776. 🤔

We all know that William Howe ditching the Hudson River Valley for personal glories in Philadelphia certainly had an affect on Burgoyne’s ability to hold the line, but was there anything within Burgoyne’s control that he could have done despite Howe’s departure and the overwhelming resistance from Patriot forces?

George Washington has the Washington Monument. Thomas Jefferson has the Jefferson Memorial. Both Washington and Jefferson appear on Mount Rushmore. Benjamin Franklin appears on the $100 bill. Alexander Hamilton appears on the $10 bill.
Washington appears on the $1 bill. James Madison has a university bearing his name.

Yet, John Adams, arguably one of the most important of the founding fathers, has little national recognition.

Adams was the man who suggested that Washington command the Continental Army. He was the man who was the primary voice for independence in Philadelphia. He was the man who asked Jefferson to write the declaration. He was a member of the Committee of Five. He was the one who secured Dutch loans for the new nation at a time when America was broke after the war. He was the one who wrote the Massachusetts Constitution, which was later used as a model for the U.S. Constitution.

How could this happen?

One of the most important Americans in our history does not have some kind of national recognition in the same vein as Washington and Jefferson. Adams always feared in his diaries how history would remember him, and unfortunately those fears have come to fruition.

Hello all!

I have recently been watching the John Adams miniseries, of which David McCullough was a part of, and it got me looking into his bibliography. He wrote a book on John Adams (which I figured I would pass for now since I was already watching the miniseries), but he also wrote a book in 2005 about the events of the Revolutionary War in the year 1776. I have watched various videos of him promoting the book, and he apparently covers major figures like Washington, Nathanael Greene, and Henry Knox.

Is this worth a read?

Thanks!