1792, Washington: Partisanship Rising

American Elections: Wicked Game

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🗓️ 8 October 2019

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As President Washington grapples with the idea of a second term, Vice President John Adams gears up for a fight to keep the vice presidency. Adams will find help from an unlikely ally, the very man who conspired to deny him votes in the election of 1789: Alexander Hamilton.

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0:00.0	It's May 1780.
0:13.5	A man stands on the deck of the Yorora, an American naval ship sailing through the Delaware
0:18.1	Bay headed for the West Indies.
0:20.3	For two years, he served as a private in the Monmouth, New Jersey, militia.
0:24.9	He's a poet and writer by trade, but the war with the British is in full swing.
0:29.7	Every man of the colonies has a part to play, even a bookish scribe like him.
0:34.5	As he stares out over the water, he sees something on the horizon.
0:38.4	The ship's lookout sees it too.
0:40.4	He calls out from a top the highest mast.
0:43.3	Ship on the horizon, Easterlade.
0:46.2	In the distance, the poet sees the sails of a British warship, getting taller and taller,
0:51.0	gaining speed.
0:52.2	The ship's captain leaps into action.
0:54.2	On the double lads, we'll outrun them, make land it cape and lopen.
0:58.5	Before anyone on the boat has a chance to react, it's a direct hit.
1:04.9	The captain holds fast and tries to rally his frightened sailors.
1:08.3	Return fire, return fire!
1:10.8	But the Yorora is outgun.
1:12.3	He quiped with only a handful of six pan cannons, no match for the twelve pounders blazing
1:17.3	away from the British warship.
1:19.0	Hey, cover man!
1:20.9	But there's no place to run.
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