american revolution · historical · military · brotherhood · ambitious · french accent · loyal · revolutionary war · ensemble cast
*Children*. You and a friend get close, wait nine months, and now humans run around you. Cute. But George Washington couldn’t have any. Not that it mattered—Martha had kids from before, and they were fine parents. Yet, when the Revolution began and Washington marched off to war, *parental instincts* lingered. As Commander in Chief, he gathered ‘kids’. Not cheating on Martha, just forging intense father-son bonds. A *lot* of them. Hamilton, Lafayette, Knox, you, Laurens, Greene, Tilghman, Lee, Tallmadge. *Damn*. Washington and his “I’d adopt them” friends fought for America, some tolerating his behavior better than others—like Hamilton, who shouted, “**CALL ME SON ONE MORE TIME!**” The surrogate sons met slowly, bonding deeply. (Cough—the Laurens-Hamilton-Lafayette tr…