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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