WEBVTT - 202. Aaron Burr - Sir! 0:00:12.680 --> 0:00:16.400 Hello, delicious friends, and welcome to Who Did What Now? 0:00:16.760 --> 0:00:20.160 The history podcast that is not your history class with 0:00:20.239 --> 0:00:24.720 me your host Katie Charlwood, History Arlotte and reader of books. 0:00:25.000 --> 0:00:27.840 And this week, this week has been wild. I had 0:00:27.880 --> 0:00:31.880 a million followers on Facebook, which wild, absolutely wild. Now 0:00:32.159 --> 0:00:35.240 that mean said, if talk Talk at Talk Talk, if 0:00:35.320 --> 0:00:38.480 TikTok and Instagram could catch up, that would be great, 0:00:38.720 --> 0:00:41.720 you know what I mean? Anyway, I don't know if 0:00:41.760 --> 0:00:44.360 you know of the pleasure pain theory. It's the idea 0:00:44.479 --> 0:00:46.800 that for every good thing that happens, something bad has 0:00:46.840 --> 0:00:49.879 to have happened. So like it's evening out the scales. 0:00:50.479 --> 0:00:54.360 So I had a million followers, and that very same day, 0:00:54.440 --> 0:00:57.560 as I was enjoying my little mcdade's cola with some 0:00:57.720 --> 0:01:02.200 brazil nut toffee, tooth broke a molar. So word to 0:01:02.240 --> 0:01:04.240 the wise, make sure you get your check up with 0:01:04.280 --> 0:01:07.200 your dentists, you know, especially the ne're divergent people who 0:01:07.280 --> 0:01:13.560 keep on forgetting to schedule that appointment. So yeah, oh, 0:01:13.959 --> 0:01:17.560 if you haven't voted on tour tour stuff, because more 0:01:17.600 --> 0:01:19.760 tour in yours come in soon. If you haven't voted 0:01:19.800 --> 0:01:22.320 on that, gut on that, let me come and see you. 0:01:22.640 --> 0:01:25.360 And yes, if you do notice that I sound a 0:01:25.360 --> 0:01:28.560 bit different, yet it is because the it's the tooth. 0:01:28.720 --> 0:01:31.200 It's the tooth. I'm on a cancelation list with my dentist. 0:01:31.319 --> 0:01:33.959 It's all good, but it's making it hard to speak. 0:01:34.360 --> 0:01:36.800 And I've noticed that I've been like buggrowing up a 0:01:36.840 --> 0:01:40.760 bunch of words. But everything shall be well. But yes, 0:01:40.840 --> 0:01:43.080 back to the tour, Back to the tour. And so 0:01:44.040 --> 0:01:48.920 I love you, lovely denizens of the Internet, but of 0:01:49.000 --> 0:01:52.160 the Internet of the world, I should say, but when 0:01:52.160 --> 0:01:56.120 you're recommending places to me, please stop trying to send 0:01:56.120 --> 0:01:59.840 me to like three thousand seat theaters and you know, 0:02:00.280 --> 0:02:03.720 seventeen hundred seat concert halls. Like I love you and 0:02:03.840 --> 0:02:06.040 I know that you enjoy this, but I feel like 0:02:06.080 --> 0:02:09.959 we should maybe lower our expectations ever so slightly, Like 0:02:10.880 --> 0:02:15.519 I'm trying to focus on independent and minority owned, especially 0:02:15.919 --> 0:02:18.000 like if I can't get that, I'll move on to 0:02:18.080 --> 0:02:21.760 the next one. Just because listen, everything that's going on 0:02:22.160 --> 0:02:24.600 over in the States right now, I'm specifically talking about 0:02:24.600 --> 0:02:28.840 the US, right you have lost so much tourism in 0:02:28.919 --> 0:02:30.880 so much everything in the places that are going to 0:02:30.919 --> 0:02:35.239 be hit worst first is always going to be the small, independent, 0:02:35.320 --> 0:02:38.720 local places, and so that's where I'm trying to trying 0:02:38.720 --> 0:02:42.000 to push push my business there. Now here's the thing 0:02:42.040 --> 0:02:47.760 about Europe. In Europe, everybody's happy to to tell you 0:02:47.800 --> 0:02:50.360 about a room above a pub that's available. It's great, 0:02:50.520 --> 0:02:54.320 you know what, And I love that about here. But yes, 0:02:55.120 --> 0:02:57.880 I hope to get this tool likefully locked in and 0:02:57.960 --> 0:03:02.200 sorted with y'all. But I know what you're thinking. You're thinking, 0:03:02.280 --> 0:03:05.519 quite your jibbel jabbel in fact me, in fact you, 0:03:05.600 --> 0:03:08.919 I will. But first we've got to get our source on. 0:03:10.040 --> 0:03:14.360 Our sources are Hamilton the musical I'm kidding, I'm kidding. 0:03:14.680 --> 0:03:19.360 I'm kidding. It's a bop, but I'm absolutely jogging. So 0:03:19.560 --> 0:03:24.760 our sources are due Alexander Hamilton. Aaron Burr and the 0:03:24.760 --> 0:03:30.680 Future of America by Thomas Fleming. Aaron Burr, a biography 0:03:30.760 --> 0:03:36.800 by Nathan Shackner. The Burr Conspiracy Uncovering the story of 0:03:36.840 --> 0:03:42.600 an early American crisis by James E. Lewis Fallen Founder, 0:03:43.000 --> 0:03:49.000 The Life of Aaron Burr by Nancy Eisenberg. The Life 0:03:49.040 --> 0:03:52.160 and Times of Aaron Burr by James Patten, And the 0:03:52.160 --> 0:03:58.440 Heartbreak of Aaron Burr by H. W. Brands ils diding 0:03:58.600 --> 0:04:04.240 comfortably good. Then let's begin. Now, some of you may 0:04:04.280 --> 0:04:09.520 know Aaron Burr, Sir. Sir. I actually really wanted to 0:04:09.520 --> 0:04:13.160 do this is a live show, specifically because I just 0:04:13.160 --> 0:04:15.320 thought it'd be really funny that when eavily talked about 0:04:15.320 --> 0:04:18.240 Aaron Burr, I would get the audience to respond with, Sir, 0:04:19.080 --> 0:04:25.000 Aaron Burr, Sir. Listen, listen. I amuse myself if nobody else. 0:04:26.000 --> 0:04:28.320 So some of you may know Aaron Burr, Sir as 0:04:28.320 --> 0:04:31.080 the man who lost a popularity contest to Thomas Jefferson 0:04:31.200 --> 0:04:34.160 and who shot a guy. But of course there is 0:04:34.320 --> 0:04:38.080 much more to this story. Aaron Burr was born on 0:04:38.120 --> 0:04:42.080 the sixth of February seventeen fifty six in Newark, New Jersey, 0:04:42.760 --> 0:04:48.360 to Esther Edwards, a diarist, and Aaron Burr Senior, a 0:04:48.440 --> 0:04:51.760 Presbyterian minister and the second president of the College of 0:04:51.800 --> 0:04:55.320 New Jersey, which some of you may know now as 0:04:55.480 --> 0:05:01.280 Princeton University. Estherel's father was a theologian, so they were 0:05:01.279 --> 0:05:05.080 all educated stock and they weren't like poor, you know 0:05:05.160 --> 0:05:08.640 what I mean. And this is all in the province 0:05:08.680 --> 0:05:13.200 of New Jersey in the thirteen colonies. Aaron Burr Junior, 0:05:13.560 --> 0:05:16.160 as he was known then, was the second child born 0:05:16.200 --> 0:05:19.280 to the couple. His older sister, Sarah was known as 0:05:19.440 --> 0:05:22.640 Sally because that's what they did back then. That is 0:05:22.680 --> 0:05:25.440 a very very common way to make a nick name. 0:05:25.560 --> 0:05:30.719 Let's have the exact same amount of syllables, like it's 0:05:30.760 --> 0:05:35.280 fine and letters. Yeah, that's that's how nicknames work. Now. 0:05:35.320 --> 0:05:38.280 It wasn't all sunshine and roses for baby Barr, because 0:05:38.880 --> 0:05:43.320 when he was but a year old, his father, Aaron Barsenia, 0:05:43.600 --> 0:05:50.440 passed away from quote exhaustion and fever. His maternal grandfather, 0:05:50.520 --> 0:05:53.839 Jonathan Edwards, came to take over his father's role in 0:05:53.880 --> 0:05:57.280 the college, but then he had complications from his smallpox 0:05:57.360 --> 0:06:03.039 vaccine and died in March seven fifty eight. Then, sixteen 0:06:03.120 --> 0:06:06.520 days later, Esther Burr's mother dies from a short illness 0:06:06.520 --> 0:06:14.440 with fever and delirium. So he's two and he's lost 0:06:14.600 --> 0:06:20.200 already his father, his mother, and his maternal grandfather. So 0:06:21.279 --> 0:06:25.680 enter Sarah Edwards, Burr's maternal grandmother, and she decides she's 0:06:25.680 --> 0:06:27.960 coming down to collect the children and to take them 0:06:27.960 --> 0:06:31.919 back to Philadelphia with her, and so she does. She 0:06:32.040 --> 0:06:34.360 collects them, they head back to Philly and they are 0:06:34.360 --> 0:06:37.400 there for a few months and then Sarah dies in 0:06:37.440 --> 0:06:42.640 October of dysentery. I mean, what is this the Oregon Trail, 0:06:43.279 --> 0:06:48.560 All roads lad to dysentery. So Sally and Aaron were 0:06:48.600 --> 0:06:52.720 already orphaned, but now it's like double orphaned at the 0:06:52.760 --> 0:06:55.040 ages of like three and two, respectively. But they are 0:06:55.040 --> 0:06:58.599 not Oliver twisted out to an orphanage. Luckily, they go 0:06:58.760 --> 0:07:04.080 under the care of the Ship family in Philadelphia. Now Philadelphia, 0:07:04.160 --> 0:07:07.000 to slip into some context, was at this point the 0:07:07.120 --> 0:07:11.760 nation's capital, and William Shipping was a trustee for the 0:07:11.840 --> 0:07:16.120 College of New Jersey, so he knew the family, but 0:07:17.240 --> 0:07:19.800 the Bird children were only under his care until the 0:07:19.920 --> 0:07:23.880 following year. And that's when their uncle, Timothy Edwards came 0:07:23.880 --> 0:07:27.520 of age and was able to legally claim guardianship of them. 0:07:27.920 --> 0:07:31.440 He was twenty one years old. Now he just starts 0:07:31.440 --> 0:07:35.800 collecting children like jubejubs, right, So he has these two kids, right, 0:07:35.840 --> 0:07:38.880 and then he has like other kids of siblings who 0:07:38.880 --> 0:07:43.160 have died, and he just has just this cohort of children, 0:07:44.000 --> 0:07:46.440 which is great for a twenty one year old who 0:07:46.520 --> 0:07:50.040 knows absolutely nothing about children. Now he does ensure that 0:07:50.160 --> 0:07:53.800 Aaron is well educated. He brings in tuors and the 0:07:53.960 --> 0:07:57.239 goal would be that, you know, until he gets educated 0:07:57.320 --> 0:07:59.960 enough to go to Princeton or what would become Princeton 0:08:00.080 --> 0:08:04.720 and sh time basically to get him educated until he 0:08:04.760 --> 0:08:08.080 reaches the college itself. But Arn Barr doesn't have have 0:08:08.120 --> 0:08:10.440 the best of childhoods, and you're thinking, we know that 0:08:10.800 --> 0:08:16.280 on a yeah, give it time. So basically, when he's four, 0:08:16.600 --> 0:08:21.800 he's like so done with his uncle's just beatings more 0:08:21.800 --> 0:08:24.560 than anything else, because this is a time of corporal punishment, 0:08:25.520 --> 0:08:30.040 and so he runs away and he runs away, and 0:08:30.080 --> 0:08:32.160 then he's brought back, okay, and then he does this 0:08:32.200 --> 0:08:34.480 again when he's like eight years old. He runs away 0:08:35.120 --> 0:08:37.120 and then he is like he's going to go work 0:08:37.160 --> 0:08:40.120 on a ship. At eight or like ten, he's still 0:08:40.120 --> 0:08:41.880 really really young. They're like, you're gonna go work on 0:08:41.920 --> 0:08:47.240 a ship and be away and escape like his very strict, 0:08:47.520 --> 0:08:53.760 very tense uncle. Now each time he's brought back, and 0:08:53.840 --> 0:08:58.920 when he's eleven, right, Barr jumps the gun a little bit, 0:08:58.960 --> 0:09:00.600 mainly because I think he is to get the heck 0:09:00.600 --> 0:09:04.839 at a dodge, right, and he tries to attend the 0:09:04.840 --> 0:09:08.960 College of New Jersey at just eleven years old, and 0:09:09.080 --> 0:09:13.280 luckily the college is like, no, you are an actual child. 0:09:13.559 --> 0:09:16.240 Please go eat your greens and get some maturity and 0:09:16.280 --> 0:09:19.320 then come back. So he decides that as soon as 0:09:19.320 --> 0:09:22.160 he is a teenager, he's going to reapply because that's 0:09:22.200 --> 0:09:25.320 how that works, and you know what, the college agrees. 0:09:26.040 --> 0:09:29.439 So at thirteen, he attends the college as a sophomore, 0:09:30.160 --> 0:09:34.360 and he joined the American Whig Society and the Cleosophic Society, 0:09:34.800 --> 0:09:39.480 the college's literally and debating societies. This will put him 0:09:39.480 --> 0:09:46.199 in good stead later. So in seventeen seventy two, at 0:09:46.240 --> 0:09:50.160 the age of sixteen, he received his Bachelor of Arts degree, 0:09:50.800 --> 0:09:54.200 but continued studying theology because of course he did for 0:09:54.240 --> 0:09:58.920 another year and he was training with Joseph Bellamy, a Presbyterian. 0:09:59.559 --> 0:10:01.679 But after two years of this he wasn't really feeling 0:10:01.720 --> 0:10:03.880 it anymore and decided he was going to go do 0:10:04.160 --> 0:10:11.600 law instead. So the college like education back then, it 0:10:11.640 --> 0:10:13.320 isn't the way that we would have it now, So 0:10:13.400 --> 0:10:17.520 like in the America. Now in the US you would 0:10:17.559 --> 0:10:22.760 have sort of elementary school, middle school, and then high 0:10:22.800 --> 0:10:25.600 school and then you'd have your college after that. Now 0:10:26.200 --> 0:10:28.960 over in Europe, we tend to do it differently. You 0:10:29.000 --> 0:10:31.440 have your sort of primary school, which is like your 0:10:31.440 --> 0:10:35.800 elementary level, and then you're there until you're like twelve thirteen, 0:10:36.240 --> 0:10:39.240 and then you move on to secondary school, which is 0:10:39.480 --> 0:10:41.440 your high school, and then of course you have your 0:10:41.480 --> 0:10:46.719 college and university after that. Now that is that and 0:10:46.800 --> 0:10:50.880 so yeah, he goes to this. So the schooling would 0:10:50.880 --> 0:10:53.080 have been different back then. You just kind of went 0:10:53.679 --> 0:10:56.520 younger and he just kind of stayed anyway, It's fine, 0:10:57.480 --> 0:10:59.640 but anyway, he has decided he's going to do law. 0:11:00.320 --> 0:11:03.040 He gets the heck at Dodge and moves to Connecticut, 0:11:03.920 --> 0:11:06.640 where he attends Litchfield Law School to study law with 0:11:06.679 --> 0:11:12.760 his brother in law, Tapping Reeves, husband to his sister Sally. Okay, 0:11:12.960 --> 0:11:17.640 so here's the thing, Aaron Burr. It feels like he 0:11:17.679 --> 0:11:22.920 doesn't have a direction of his own in my personal opinion, right, 0:11:23.800 --> 0:11:30.000 because he's wantn't you go into like theology. He wants 0:11:30.000 --> 0:11:34.560 to study religion because like dad's a minister, you know, 0:11:34.679 --> 0:11:40.480 grandfather's theology. You know, Timothy probably nothing to do with 0:11:40.520 --> 0:11:42.920 Jimithay by the way, Timothy's probably into some of that 0:11:42.960 --> 0:11:45.720 stuff too, And so he's doing that and then he's like, 0:11:45.840 --> 0:11:48.120 hmm no. And then his brother in law happens to 0:11:48.120 --> 0:11:50.080 be doing law and he's like, you know what, that's 0:11:50.120 --> 0:11:54.760 what I want to do. So he's found out a 0:11:54.840 --> 0:11:58.800 law school has tapping reeves, and Burr just keeps to 0:11:58.840 --> 0:12:03.560 be following in someone else's footsteps. But again that is 0:12:03.720 --> 0:12:10.319 just my opinion. By seventeen seventy five, news reached Lichfield 0:12:10.360 --> 0:12:12.839 of the clashes with British troops in the Battle of 0:12:12.960 --> 0:12:19.840 Lexington and Concord. And this these battles which launched the 0:12:19.880 --> 0:12:23.880 American Revolutionary War or the War of Independence, depending on 0:12:24.360 --> 0:12:27.560 how you want to read that. Now, so Barr he 0:12:27.600 --> 0:12:29.960 puts his studies on hold so he could enlist in 0:12:30.000 --> 0:12:33.960 the Continental Army, and Bud decides he's going to be 0:12:34.000 --> 0:12:38.880 a soldier. So Burr joined the Continental Army, serving under 0:12:38.880 --> 0:12:42.640 his body Benedict Arnold, who is like the British of 0:12:42.720 --> 0:12:47.480 the American War of Independence, but with remarkably less stabbing somehow. 0:12:48.320 --> 0:12:51.920 Now I say he joins the Continental Army, they basically 0:12:51.960 --> 0:12:57.520 take on volunteers. You are volunteering in the army. Now, Barr, 0:12:57.880 --> 0:13:01.000 he does well in the army, might even go as 0:13:01.040 --> 0:13:04.839 far as to say that he thrives. So bur he 0:13:04.920 --> 0:13:10.360 volunteers himself for Colonel Benedict Arnold's expedition to Quebec. Like 0:13:10.600 --> 0:13:13.400 Quebec is not the place it is now. It was 0:13:13.480 --> 0:13:19.000 basically of wilderness, some might say now and it is 0:13:19.040 --> 0:13:22.160 a three hundred to three hundred and fifty mile trek 0:13:22.720 --> 0:13:25.280 all in all right from where he's at, and the 0:13:25.400 --> 0:13:32.720 goal is to invade Canada. It's well, sorry, it's a 0:13:32.720 --> 0:13:37.040 wild concept to me. But anyway, this expedition, you're going 0:13:37.080 --> 0:13:41.280 to be surprised. It does not go well, right in general, 0:13:41.360 --> 0:13:44.280 I mean it goes great for Burr, just not for him. 0:13:44.920 --> 0:13:47.400 So basically he's been told that he has to deliver 0:13:47.559 --> 0:13:52.120 a message to General Montgomery. Now this General Richard Montgomery, 0:13:52.320 --> 0:13:55.120 he had taken Montreal, so he is the big dog 0:13:55.880 --> 0:13:58.119 and Burr has to pass a message on to him. 0:13:58.400 --> 0:14:00.959 And so he has to get behind me lines and 0:14:01.040 --> 0:14:05.840 he does so by Hannah Montana ing it and dressing 0:14:05.960 --> 0:14:10.079 like a priest, right, so a Catholic priest. So he's 0:14:10.080 --> 0:14:15.959 a Presbyterian lawyer or a Presbyterian law student, I should say, 0:14:16.360 --> 0:14:22.520 disguised as a Catholic priest. And like it's it's oh 0:14:23.480 --> 0:14:28.360 like He's like, yeah, super into Mary. Love love the Mary, 0:14:28.400 --> 0:14:31.880 and the statues beg into the statues, lover statues. They 0:14:31.920 --> 0:14:35.600 don't wait and Mary, I now say three hail Mary's 0:14:35.680 --> 0:14:37.840 and an active condrision and you'll be fine. As he 0:14:37.880 --> 0:14:47.080 passes through. Now because of his education, right, because he 0:14:47.440 --> 0:14:49.840 is upbringing and his education and all that, like, he 0:14:49.880 --> 0:14:53.840 actually does quite well here. He finds a pathway into 0:14:53.840 --> 0:14:57.000 the inner circle. And Montgomery as well, is so impressed 0:14:57.000 --> 0:15:01.360 with Bart that he promotes him to captain and as 0:15:01.400 --> 0:15:05.880 his aide de camp. So he's basically like his like 0:15:05.920 --> 0:15:08.080 we assistant is he buddy? It's like we best guy, 0:15:08.200 --> 0:15:11.720 you know what I mean. So the Battle of Quebec, 0:15:12.040 --> 0:15:15.720 one thing leads to another and it's an absolute shit show, right, 0:15:16.200 --> 0:15:22.360 and Montgomery dies now burr. He does try to recover 0:15:22.480 --> 0:15:26.560 the body, but he's under enemy fire. He's in the 0:15:26.600 --> 0:15:33.080 snow and also Montgomery's dead weight. And I mean that 0:15:34.040 --> 0:15:37.080 literally because between that and the harsh weather conditions and 0:15:37.160 --> 0:15:42.000 you know, the bullets, it just wasn't happening. But it 0:15:42.080 --> 0:15:43.800 is noted that he tried to do it. It is 0:15:43.840 --> 0:15:45.600 a Wheebler aware he tried to do it. And so 0:15:46.120 --> 0:15:52.840 this right, right, this established him as a hero here, 0:15:54.840 --> 0:15:57.120 and this is also where like he gets a bit 0:15:57.960 --> 0:16:03.360 disillusioned because after what he went through, after going through 0:16:03.400 --> 0:16:06.520 all of this and this again absolute shit show of 0:16:06.560 --> 0:16:12.040 trying to invade Quebec, right, he just comes to this 0:16:12.600 --> 0:16:19.800 conclusion that Congress is basically inept at military planning, and 0:16:19.880 --> 0:16:26.240 he writes, he writes that they are either drunk or crazy. 0:16:26.320 --> 0:16:31.440 And also like he's serving under Benedict Arnold and he 0:16:31.680 --> 0:16:35.640 is just sick of his shit, and so he wants 0:16:35.680 --> 0:16:39.240 out of that. And people are saying good things about Burr, 0:16:40.280 --> 0:16:44.960 and his relative and bestie Matthias Ogden, gets him a 0:16:45.000 --> 0:16:48.120 gig with George Washington in Manhattan as a member of 0:16:48.160 --> 0:16:52.080 his staff now, but isn't happy with this position. Doesn't 0:16:52.120 --> 0:16:54.600 want to be a member of this because he's like 0:16:55.840 --> 0:17:00.280 surrounded by lots of like backstabbing and back talking all 0:17:00.280 --> 0:17:03.560 this other bollocks and he's not there for that, and 0:17:03.600 --> 0:17:08.080 so he quits again to be a soldier. And so 0:17:08.280 --> 0:17:12.680 John Hancock he recommends Burt to General Israel Putnam, and 0:17:12.760 --> 0:17:15.919 Putnam takes a shining to birth and makes him his 0:17:16.080 --> 0:17:22.639 aid de camp and so he's actually gained in this 0:17:22.760 --> 0:17:25.480 bit he's like, he's showing that he's you know, trustworthy, 0:17:26.080 --> 0:17:31.520 he's responsible, he's reasonable at least, you know, to these generals. 0:17:32.760 --> 0:17:36.840 And that's going all fine and well. And then the 0:17:36.880 --> 0:17:49.320 British land in Manhattan. British forces landed in Manhattan, and 0:17:49.359 --> 0:17:53.120 so the American forces, the Continental Army, they have to retreat. 0:17:54.400 --> 0:17:57.040 Part of that is because Washington isn't great at the 0:17:57.080 --> 0:18:00.080 old decision making, Like it's almost as if he's so 0:18:00.160 --> 0:18:04.240 worried about rushing into your decision that he's becoming too hesitant. 0:18:05.040 --> 0:18:08.359 And this may shock you all, but Aaron Barr pretty 0:18:08.359 --> 0:18:12.760 good at running away. Effectively. He designs the best route 0:18:12.800 --> 0:18:15.520 out of the city and he guides about what five 0:18:15.600 --> 0:18:20.720 thousand people to safety, during which he also salvages artillery, 0:18:20.760 --> 0:18:23.000 which is needed to because you can't win a war 0:18:23.160 --> 0:18:28.560 without buckets and buckets and bullets. Now, from this, he 0:18:28.640 --> 0:18:31.680 gets promoted to a lieutenant colonel and he's in charge 0:18:31.680 --> 0:18:35.960 of three hundred men. Basically, when you become a lieutenant colonel, 0:18:36.280 --> 0:18:38.560 they just kind of give you three hundred men. Well, 0:18:38.640 --> 0:18:44.040 I say that that's not true, that's wrong. No, there's 0:18:44.080 --> 0:18:47.520 another dude. He's in charge. But he's like, never there, 0:18:47.640 --> 0:18:52.320 and so bar just ends up in charge of this 0:18:52.720 --> 0:18:57.280 three hundred group of men, and he's strict, but he's smart, 0:18:57.880 --> 0:19:01.520 you know. He's fighting off for his raids into New Jersey. 0:19:01.840 --> 0:19:05.119 There's this horrible winter in seventeen seventy seven, and he 0:19:05.280 --> 0:19:10.879 defends the pass at Valley Forge. Now he fights in 0:19:10.920 --> 0:19:13.480 the Battle of Monmouth, but it is a shit show. 0:19:13.640 --> 0:19:16.320 He's defeating. His horse gets shot out from under him 0:19:16.560 --> 0:19:20.200 and he gets severe heat stroke. He tries to get 0:19:20.320 --> 0:19:25.560 medical leave, like without pay, but Washington denies him and 0:19:25.680 --> 0:19:30.000 instead he is sent to West Point to oversee disciplinary measures, 0:19:30.040 --> 0:19:35.280 and he despises it, like he is not about this whatsoever, 0:19:36.200 --> 0:19:40.320 because like the troops are being disrespectful because they called 0:19:40.400 --> 0:19:44.320 him like Aaron Burr's son or like young Burr because 0:19:44.359 --> 0:19:48.000 he was so young, and they're just like, where's the 0:19:48.080 --> 0:19:53.840 actual general look at this young villa, so like he's 0:19:54.160 --> 0:19:56.879 young and all the generals that could have boosted his 0:19:56.920 --> 0:20:00.920 military career. But basically now either out of the army 0:20:01.480 --> 0:20:05.879 are dead, right, And so he says that the officers 0:20:05.960 --> 0:20:10.240 are getting soldiers to steal food from civilians, and so 0:20:10.359 --> 0:20:12.720 he makes his men return the ship that they stole, 0:20:12.800 --> 0:20:18.399 which fairly good right now. One of my favorite stories. 0:20:18.440 --> 0:20:21.359 I can't remember if it's like here or before. I 0:20:21.400 --> 0:20:24.560 didn't write it down in this in this one, but 0:20:24.640 --> 0:20:31.960 basically there's this plot to assassinate Burr, and so in 0:20:32.320 --> 0:20:37.600 order to like avoid this, well, he actually gets wind 0:20:37.600 --> 0:20:40.919 of this, right and so he actually gets you know, 0:20:41.119 --> 0:20:45.960 his soldiers to like remove like the bullets from the guns. 0:20:46.000 --> 0:20:48.399 Like He's just like, no, we're not doing this, and 0:20:48.440 --> 0:20:51.600 so he prevents himself from being shot. It was weird, 0:20:51.760 --> 0:20:56.840 but anyway, so on top of this, Burr is a 0:20:56.960 --> 0:21:00.280 ladies man, but he's also very aware that the wrong 0:21:00.320 --> 0:21:04.199 word from him could ruin a reputation, so he keeps 0:21:04.400 --> 0:21:08.120 stumb So this is actually very clever because I mean, 0:21:08.160 --> 0:21:12.359 he could just be very respectful or I say respectful, 0:21:12.960 --> 0:21:16.960 or he could be you know, knowing that ladies talk. 0:21:17.200 --> 0:21:22.040 And if he's known for you know, ruining one woman, 0:21:22.480 --> 0:21:24.840 he could ruin another. In what's that that's not good 0:21:24.880 --> 0:21:29.119 on his end, you know? So in like seventeen seventy 0:21:29.200 --> 0:21:34.800 seven seventy eight, he meets Theodosia Bartow Provost at her home. 0:21:35.720 --> 0:21:39.240 Now he meets her at her home because her home 0:21:39.359 --> 0:21:44.479 is being used as Washington's headquarters now Theodosia. She is 0:21:44.520 --> 0:21:47.879 married to a British officer, and she's also ten years 0:21:48.200 --> 0:21:54.080 by senior. She's thirty two, he's twenty two. Theodosia has 0:21:54.200 --> 0:21:57.440 five kids with her enemy husband, who is presumably out 0:21:57.520 --> 0:22:02.040 fighting somewhere now. She's actually pretty cool and she's not 0:22:02.080 --> 0:22:05.320 seen as a looker pusse. She's got a facial scar, 0:22:05.440 --> 0:22:08.840 which everyone feels the need to point out, but she's 0:22:09.040 --> 0:22:12.240 bright and witty, and her and Barr they got on 0:22:12.359 --> 0:22:15.879 like a house on fire. Now they start off as 0:22:15.880 --> 0:22:20.199 friends because reasonably that's how that works, and he's visiting 0:22:20.320 --> 0:22:24.680 a lot, and eventually they're pretty open about being together, 0:22:25.119 --> 0:22:26.919 and no one cares about her husband because they're like, 0:22:26.960 --> 0:22:30.119 fuck him. He's British. I mean, listen, he's a Swiss 0:22:30.119 --> 0:22:35.560 born British officer, but he made his choice. So they're 0:22:35.760 --> 0:22:40.040 very openly together. So it's like, here's my boyfriend, Aaron Barr, 0:22:40.200 --> 0:22:44.440 and people are very aware those two are together, and 0:22:44.920 --> 0:22:53.240 yet reputation unscathed. So I say unscathed. Burr's health isn't 0:22:53.280 --> 0:22:56.760 great after the heat stroke and the probable PTSD from 0:22:56.840 --> 0:22:59.840 all of the war trauma, so he resigns from the 0:22:59.920 --> 0:23:02.440 arm and decides to go back into the law thing. 0:23:04.720 --> 0:23:07.200 So he's studying up, he's getting to grips with the 0:23:07.280 --> 0:23:10.840 law again. And then Theodosia's husband dies of yellow fever 0:23:11.000 --> 0:23:17.000 in Jamaica in seventeen eighty one, so she, for propriety's sake, 0:23:17.080 --> 0:23:19.359 has to go through at least some official mourning before 0:23:19.400 --> 0:23:25.920 she can remarry. And also she wants him to actually 0:23:25.920 --> 0:23:29.240 have a profession so they can wed, which is fair 0:23:29.520 --> 0:23:32.400 because she's like, I must wait till I'm more sensible. 0:23:33.080 --> 0:23:36.159 There's always the possibility that, like, even though she didn't 0:23:36.400 --> 0:23:40.680 really care for her husband much, that she was still 0:23:40.720 --> 0:23:42.840 grieving in some kind of way, because grief is weird 0:23:42.880 --> 0:23:49.080 and it's not linear, it's kind of wobbly, So her 0:23:49.160 --> 0:23:52.679 reading some time seems really reasonable. Also, she would have 0:23:52.720 --> 0:23:56.800 to go through some official mourning, but like mourning is 0:23:56.800 --> 0:24:00.480 supposed to last like a long time, supposed to be 0:24:00.520 --> 0:24:04.200 like a year, sometimes six months, sometimes you know, half mourning. 0:24:04.560 --> 0:24:06.399 But she can go through like a little bit of 0:24:06.400 --> 0:24:10.160 it because you know, he husband was British and she's 0:24:10.200 --> 0:24:15.560 American now, so Hussa. So he decides to give himself 0:24:15.560 --> 0:24:18.040 wearefresher on the law and ends up passing the bar 0:24:18.200 --> 0:24:23.080 in seventeen eighty two, after which Aaron Barr and Theodosia 0:24:23.200 --> 0:24:28.760 get married. Their daughter, also called Theodosia, is born the 0:24:28.800 --> 0:24:32.280 following year, the only child of the couple to survive 0:24:32.400 --> 0:24:38.000 into adulthood. So he makes sure that Theodosia Junior gets 0:24:38.040 --> 0:24:42.520 a good education like that of a boy. Also, he's 0:24:42.600 --> 0:24:44.720 really good to his step kids, like they all really 0:24:44.800 --> 0:24:46.960 like him, and he seems to be a pretty good 0:24:47.040 --> 0:24:50.680 like dad father figure in all. And his law practice 0:24:50.720 --> 0:24:56.120 really takes off and everything is turning up Millhouse. Then 0:24:56.160 --> 0:24:59.800 in seventeen eighty four and seventeen eighty five he's a 0:24:59.840 --> 0:25:06.480 li to the State Assembly, which he wasn't that fond 0:25:06.480 --> 0:25:10.439 of doing. Then in seventeen eighty nine he's appointed attorney General. 0:25:12.200 --> 0:25:16.199 It's interesting because like he's really progressive for the time. 0:25:16.880 --> 0:25:20.160 He's for women having the vote. He's wanting to free 0:25:20.200 --> 0:25:24.679 all black enslaved people in New York, which progressive, But 0:25:24.720 --> 0:25:26.920 on the flip side of that coin, he did also 0:25:27.119 --> 0:25:31.760 own enslaved people. How he educated he made sure they 0:25:31.800 --> 0:25:39.240 were educated too, but also though still enslaved, you know, 0:25:40.920 --> 0:25:45.320 you know, so he's been toiling away, and by seventeen 0:25:45.400 --> 0:25:49.199 ninety one, he's got a pretty successful political campaign against 0:25:49.200 --> 0:25:56.040 Alexander Hamilton's father in law, Philip Skyler. Going right, Hamilton 0:25:56.160 --> 0:26:02.160 takes this as a personal insult, right, and that's because 0:26:02.600 --> 0:26:06.320 you know, bar takes a seat. So they've been beefing 0:26:06.400 --> 0:26:09.240 for a while, because Hamilton lost to him in court 0:26:09.320 --> 0:26:13.399 a bunch, and also because Hamilton is a federalist and 0:26:13.520 --> 0:26:16.119 Bar is kind of more into democracy as a whole. 0:26:19.560 --> 0:26:21.760 There's there's a whole thing between the two of them. 0:26:22.000 --> 0:26:24.919 And as much as the musical might want to make 0:26:24.960 --> 0:26:27.639 you think that Alexander Hamilton is in any way progressive, 0:26:29.000 --> 0:26:33.119 he's like terrible person. You know what I'm gonna have 0:26:33.160 --> 0:26:36.119 to do like a three part series. I think if 0:26:36.119 --> 0:26:39.240 I'm ever gonna have to do Alexander Hamilton, like the 0:26:39.280 --> 0:26:44.600 Reynolds pamphlet alone, is going to take up time. But anyway, 0:26:44.680 --> 0:26:50.239 In seventeen ninety four, Theodosia passes away from cancer. Now 0:26:50.280 --> 0:26:52.480 there are some dispute as to whether this is stomach 0:26:52.600 --> 0:26:59.040 or uterine cancer, but she dies. In seventeen ninety six, 0:26:59.200 --> 0:27:04.360 Bar runs for president and loses. It's the Adams administration 0:27:05.640 --> 0:27:09.240 and when it rains, it polls like bad things coming through. 0:27:09.600 --> 0:27:13.199 So he loses the election. He doesn't get re elected 0:27:13.240 --> 0:27:17.560 to the Senate, and he loses to Phillip Skuyla. So 0:27:17.640 --> 0:27:22.720 by eighteen hundred he's running again. Like initially, the parties 0:27:22.760 --> 0:27:26.280 are like, let's run his teams. So on the same 0:27:26.680 --> 0:27:31.000 ticket you've got. You know, Adams is running with Charles 0:27:31.040 --> 0:27:34.400 Coatsworth in their Federalists, and then you've got Thomas Jefferson, 0:27:34.400 --> 0:27:38.320 who's running with Aaron Burr as the Democratic Republicans. Now 0:27:38.320 --> 0:27:43.440 there's no popular vote. State legislators appoint electors and so 0:27:43.520 --> 0:27:47.840 they make the vote. So Jefferson and Bath sweep most 0:27:47.960 --> 0:27:51.199 of the South and Adams is doing well in like 0:27:51.280 --> 0:27:55.199 the northeast. Basically, the Federalists didn't want to tie, and 0:27:55.280 --> 0:27:57.800 so they got Rhode Island to vote for John Jay 0:27:58.200 --> 0:28:01.760