We Are Not Strangers (But We Are Memes)

Because sometimes you just need to laugh through the tears.

The Boston Tea Party:

Corporal Cheene vs. William Fanthorp:

The 2 officers sent out to scout the countryside in the lead-up to Lexington and Concord: 

Matthew and Josiah in Chapter 1:

General Gage, after Lexington and Concord:

Josiah the pious Congregationalist meeting Matthew:

Matthew’s general state of being:

John Barker, writing his diary:

Francis, Lord Rawdon:

Generals Howe, Clinton, and Burgoyne, who KEEP IN MIND sailed before the war began and arrived in Boston two days before Chelsea Creek:

Lord Rawdon prior to battle:

Lord Rawdon on the redoubt:

Ensign Martin Hunter:

Salem Poor at Bunker Hill:

Meanwhile, poor Pitcairn:

Abercrombie:

George Harris, who did actually write his cousin that he now had proof of his brain:

The 5th Regiment of Foot after Bunker Hill:

Thomas Kettel:

William Cunningham:

Cunningham about Josiah:

Trying to figure out who JL from Dr. Warren’s papers is like:

Rawdon asking Matthew to come with him when he’s promoted:

Sergeant Martin finding out what happened while Matthew was missing:

Rawdon and Harris when interrogating Josiah:

Josiah’s Puritan guilt:

Meanwhile (though in his defense, a general court-martial is different stakes from a regimental court-martial!):

When Percy saves the day:

General Howe seeing Boston’s summer fade:

Josiah when Harris shows up in London:

Green, desperately trying to restrain Fanthorp without Holmes and Matthew:

Josiah when he catches Martin with his mother:

Fanthorp trying to dispel the tension after Philip’s birth:

And lastly:

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Responses to “We Are Not Strangers (But We Are Memes)”

  1. maeglin

    i laughed way too hard at some of these 🥲

    1. Mercy Leroux

      Hehe I’m glad! Admittedly we both cackled at many of them.

  2. Defective_Avian

    The comment about having a brain is so funny to me. At least Harris was able to have a sense of humor about his injury. lol

    1. Mercy Leroux

      Truly! It is funny reading these old letters and realizing that they were just as prone to joking as us. 

      1. Defective_Avian

        Agreed!

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