Oh, I’m sure that’s how they overthrew the East India Company, The Crown’s corporate military was drinking and whoring! That’s why this generation is being raped of it’s future by it’s predecessor UKSRCO.

He was rather notorious for those very vices in his youth; now he gets to feel young again.

@@TheSaneHatter Funny how the world love to belittle the founding fathers while at the same time fight for a teat to latch on.

@@Daniel24445 Well said.

@@Daniel24445 It is true, though. Dr. Franklin, for all his virtues, was notoriously promiscuous. The stuff he got up to while dispatched to France doesn't bear speaking about.

Shadowman4710 Oneof the best interpretations of Franklin.

Always worked for me.

I like how Adam just nods in a way that says “yeah that will work”

All that was missing was a brief dust cloud in the shape of Dr. Franklin and a scene with him shotgun on the carriage thwacking the roof yelling "COME ONNNN! WE AINT LEFT YET!?!?"

Still that way lol

You lucky devil. I had to settle for seeing the film on a field trip in the 70's and instantly fell in love with it

Yes! It is so underrated. Should be mandatory viewing in every high school civics class.. @@glentz716And it should always be the version with "Cool, cool men." Says everything you need to know about conservatives- the same hypocrites who wave the biggest flags today would have sided with England in 1776.. America was founded on flaming liberalism....

@@glentz716 We saw the revival with Brent Spiner as Adams. I have to admit it came a distant second to the movie version with several of the original Broadway cast, including the magnificent William Daniels with the great chemistry of Howard da Silva.

well weeds legal so guess that’s new

@@pharohjohnson1392 Well it was legal back then too. The first Cannabis law in the US was in 1906 in Washington DC and it was to require a prescription for any Cannabis drugs, it wasn't until 1937 that the "Marihuana" tax act was enacted and it was 1970 before it became a schedule 1 drug.

Blame Snooki....

LMAO…touche

You all haven't changed much, thank goodness. 😀 Greetings from Virginia.

You do realise it's an actor and not the real Hopkins?

You don't look a day over 240 something years old.😂🤣

I was honestly hoping it was bill burr in a weird cameo.

@@lucaschneider1613 Maybe if they ever do a remake. Which no way in HELL will be as good as the original.

Having played the character before, I must agree.

You should have seen the Congress of Vienna. It was a city-wide frat party.

It was both-they were educated and mannered, but they were also men.

Some men study history, and some men teach history... ...but there are some men who MAKE history!

Mr Feeney, of John Adams HS. I have to believe it was intentional.

@@stratbaseballman You'd better believe it, baby! 😉

@UncleMikeNJ There is none better!

I always thought" she must be exhausted " would have been a good line.

You must tell her to start an OnlyFans!

He should’ve seen that coming.

I always thought that was especially mean of Dickinson: fired off at Adams or Franklin, it would have been good sport and probably deserved, but poor little Reverend Witherspoon was a relative innocent.

Kathy it’s not a coincidence that this is in your recommended

The best of stage and screen.

Yeah, blocking is sadly not as focused on these days in film. The fact they had the musical to build off of probably helped in figuring out the blocking.

Hey dumbass. Very scene in everything you’ve ever seen was blocked out, even the new ones

Tell her "Keep up of the good work!"

William Craig except for pumping gas

@@an_6183 And guns. Oh the irony.

As some who lives in New Jersey I can confirm

Including incess

Not anymore lol

I suppose the French call it the English disease?

@@anakeveney7186 The French used to call it the "Italian disease", actually!

1968 Osan AFB ROK. On a regular basis Oasn had the highest VD rate in the PacAF. And the 1314th Security Police Squadron regularly led the way with the highest VD rate on Osan!

Most young people ?

@@anakeveney7186 Italian disease

RC 1986

Yoooo

Same 😂😂

​@UncleMikeNJR! U! Rah! Red Team! Upstream!

For being "Americans", they DO tend to behave with a rather English-dry wit.

I have it on great authority that every Englishman with dry wit shipped off to the colonies prior to the Revolution. And that is why all England has left in the way of humor is men wearing dresses.

Tempting fate at it’s finest

It feels like (on some level) they wrote this whole scene as the buildup to that joke.

Yes, and KITT on Knight Rider.

The advantage of home territory is that you just need to survive and not be destroyed, which is something that Washington understood very well.

And he took Lyman Hall with him

Role in Amadeaus must have been based on this earlier role.

@@bnelso2833 He was Director of the Imperial Opera first.

49, as of when you wrote this post.

Who sang "Mama, Look Sharp"???

@@kennethpurscell like I said I can't sing, there wasn't a dry eye in the house.

He gets a nice solo song later.

@@roberthaworth8991 A nice *depressing* solo song, in fact!

History is boring. Embrace the mythology of the event and strengthen your culture.

How’s the whoring and the drinking these days?

You go to school there too or?

@@SinoLegionaire yes i do Im in the Highschool

@@mmxgamingx1354 you gonna go to Rutgers bro

@@SinoLegionaire hell nah💀💀tu ta loco

At that point in time, your ancestors were pretty much Englishmen themselves still. So this was more like another English civil war if you really think about it. Well, from the British perspective anyway.

@@ulysses2162 here here. That it was. Nothing more or nothing less. A civil war.

@@ulysses2162 Not a civil war. The rebel colonists were fighting for recognition that they had ceased to be British, and wanted to regain local self-government (which they'd effectively enjoyed for years prior to the end of the French & Indian War and the subsequent tax, etc. mandates laid on by Parliament) -- this time, under new management. But this was not only, or even mainly, a war over policy -- it was fought over identity. Franklin says it best in this movie: "We have become a new nationality. We require a new nation." Most British did see Americans as fallen, second-rate, or wannabe, Englishmen -- at least initially. A popular derisive nickname for rebel troops collectively among the British during the early part of the war was, "Brother Jonathan" (much as we nicknamed the WWII Germans "Krauts" and Vietnamese soldiers "Gooks" or "Charlie"). The name "Brother Jonathan" implied a pious bumpkin -- an unsophisticated farmer, ignorant of military affairs. In this it was pretty accurate early on, much less so later. Many British soldiers and officers actually came to respect the rebels for their tenacity, resilience, and ability to field an army and fight under conditions of supply and weather that would have caused any European force to disband. In addition, all the British governors and other officials were ejected from their colonies after just the first weeks of war; thereafter the Crown had no civil administration in place to conduct its side of a "civil war" -- only civilians installed by the British Army could rule, and then within a very small geographic scope that was under near-constant threat. Finally, formal recognition of the new United States by the French, Dutch, and Spanish turned the conflict into an international one -- really a world war, fought from the Mississippi Valley to the Caribbean to the coast of Ireland and all the way to India. At that point the origins of the war became irrelevant, for its nature had changed decisively.

I just have to ask, how did everyone watching this scene in New Brunswick react? XD

Nothing meek about Washington. Just restrained. A very "proper" demeanor, esp. in public and in correspondence. He played his cards close to his chest and said as little as was needed to meet the moment. As a youth he actually wrote a manual of gentlemanly behavior, and stuck to its principles his entire life. His moral uprightness and strong sense of public duty saw the nation past its formative years without lapsing into either chaos or dictatorship.

Today, it would either be shot down due to the slavery issue, or militantly suggested that half these men were trans.

I saw it in school but I am not sure how old I was.

Our entire class (7th or 8th grade) walked to the movie theater for a special showing. Small town, it was less than a half mile walk, probably.

Ur from new brunswick? Me too😎🤝

Ayy

Brunswicks not the same to me since they raped Tumulty's and made it into who knows what. Jury duty lunches haven't been the same since.

How so? The American advantage were riflemen.. not muskemen

😂😂😂takes a lil bit

@@u2bemark At this point in time, the Prussians were still considered to be the best army in Europe, although in fact they were nowhere near as powerful as they had been 20 years earlier. In fact, the British tried to hire Prussian troops but Frederick was still mad at the British and told them to fuck off (maybe not in those terms). They then tried Katherine the Great of Russia but as Frederick's cousin, she pretty much told them the same thing, although I'm sure she was more polite about it. That's how they settled on hiring German mercenaries from the petty states, like Hesse-Kessel.

@@Shadowman4710 Best army, for sure, but that was more owing to their organization and superior officer corps than anything else. Pound for pound the British Redcoat was the best-*trained* soldier in the world.

Lol only millennials will understand boy meets world

well that's easy.. your thought process.. You thought of Giamatti's serious version of John Adams and were comparing it to this broadway musical role... I totally get it.

@@u2bemark absolutely, that has to be it!

More like KITT sounds a lot like John Adams. :)

Same Actor! He also played Mr Feeney in the series Boy Meets World.

It is Kit.

Well.. it worked out! Thanks Rutgers... which was there at the time. Alexander Hamilton defended a river ford with artillery during Washington's retreat from New York from the Rutgers campus... well, what would become the main New Brunswick campus.

I am afraid the dispatch must be fake. The trip to New Brunswick did not happen. But I suppose such a dispatch might have been possible. Certainly, the army passed through New Brunswick. The British spent time there as well. The main Washington HQ in New Jersey was up in the hills near Morristown, with quite a bit of swampy and hilly lands between them and the British in New York, about 25-30 NW miles from New Brunswick. And the Battle of Monmouth took place about 15-20 miles SE from New Brunswick. The raid on Princeton on Christmas day after crossing the Delaware.. about 17 miles SW from New Brunswick. you can read Washingtons 1776 writings here oll.libertyfund.org/title/ford-the-writings-of-george-washington-vol-iv-1776

@@u2bemark while I don't disagree with you, just adding: Washington did pass through New Brunswick though, on his retreat from New York. Hamilton served as commander of a rear guard and was engaged with the persuing British across the river, in what became my childhood hometown Highland Park NJ. He also spent July 4th 1778 in New Brunswick.

@@erikromatowski9342 I was just about to say that. There is still a plaque that outside of a building that has been multiple restaurants in the last few years that clearly states it. New Brunswick was also one of the first dozen towns in which the Declaration of Independence was read out loud by the town crier (still a thing back then) .

@@u2bemark The trip didn't take place until later. But the dispatch was The authors used direct quotes from Washington's actual dispatches.

If you have not yet seen Hamilton on Disney+ check it out and compare that cast to the one here (no, I don't mean race, I mean ages).. oh.. I suppose it is different.. one is for one year and the other a whole (truncated) lifetime.

He just knew his whole argument was thrown out the window at that moment.

Well, I do know that Alexander Hamilton was there.. commended an artillery company covering Washington's withdrawal from New York across the Raritan river from the heights above the river where Rutgers College's oldest campus is (then Queens College and its called Olde Queens campus). There's a plaque. And I know Lincoln spoke at the train station on the way to his inauguration (or was it 2nd inauguration?). Don't know about the other founders but wouldn't be surprised. New Brunswick was bit of an inland port city before there were good roads and railroads. It would be the end-point for a busy canal for a while linking to the Delaware River.. but that was all after the Revolution. In the pre-railroad canal days New Brunswick would be a busy steamship port to bring coal to New York... Cornelius Vanderbilt started his steamship line fortune there (and New York) and for a time around 1820 lived in New Brunswick at a hotel his family owned and operated along with his steamship operation on the river. and, no.. no such trip took place. They may have passed through New Brunswick on their way to New York.

one more thing.. Ben Franklin's response was pretty funny since his son William was then Governor of the New Jersey colony and a Tory loyalist. He would be imprisoned from 1776-1778 and be exiled to London in 1782 to live out his days there.

Rutgers University already existed before this

@@raymondweaver8526 It was called "Queens College" back then. It was later named for Henry Rutgers who donated a bunch of money to keep it from closing. But as a New Brunswick native I can confirm that people still venture there for the same reasons described by Samuel Adams.

Well.. in those early days.. it was a PORT CITY... that is.. small ships could cruise up from Raritan bay (below Staten Island) and take farm goods to New York City. Later.. before railroads.. they built a canal from New Brunswick to the Delaware River to take coal to New York. Cornelius Vanderbilt once lived in the city in a hotel he owned while managing a steamship line. That was roughly 1820.

I think Rocky and Bullwinkle was William Conrad, who was Marshall Dillion on the radio version of Gunsmoke before he was passed over for TV. He later became "Cannon" on TV in the 70s.

It is you.

You have got to love Franklin, determined that the US would be an independent nation if it meant he had to sleep with every noble woman in France!

Well.. I doubt very much the letter about conditions in New Brunswick were correct. IIRC, New Brunswick was only a town that the Continental Army transited... it did not camp there afaik. It was a minor port city with river access to Staten Island and then New York, it would have been too dangerous for the Continentals as the British could appear rather quickly. There is a plaque there that says Alexander Hamilton commanded an artillery battery guarding a fork in the river for teh Army as it retreated from New York toward Philadelphia. Famously, the British and Hessians had camps in Princeton (only 17 miles from New Brunswick) as well as Treton, a bit further on. So.. this letter.. No. Perhaps it was thought "New Brunswick" was a funnier town name than Morristown.. which was a Washington HQ in NW new Jersey and was much better protected by geography and hills than New Brunwswick.

Washington took a very dim view of his militia recruits in letters on a number of occasions and often commented on the quality of the officers.

@@ThomasPurcell That's because they were all "domestic terrorists".

Domestic terrorists are resisters to nobility slavery!

Than George the President came to do away with the phony, tyrannical monarch for the Liberty of all Americans. Nothing will make a Brit crap themselves more than the sight of Washington.

One can burn libraries and books, rewrite and spin new history but one can never erase Facts as they are stubborn things!

King George was incapacitated at this point by a type of mental illness.The British found a doctor who claimed he could cure him and he did.though it took 3 years or so to do so before he regained the Crown.

The fuck does that have to do with anything?

Hmm.. the same reason that K.I.T.T. (the American car in Knght Rider) had that same accent?

@@u2bemark yes

He’s from New England

That's not a British accent - it's a Boston Brahmin accent (albeit with a tinge of Brooklyn).

@@cisium1184 yes