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Turn One Sentence Lore Drops:

Anyone else notice there's random, kind of important character info that gets dropped totally randomly and then never brought up again? Cause I sure did :D My friend and I have gone through the whole series and noted every one sentence lore drop we found. Thought the fandom might appreciate it for character study purposes!

(Organized by character and episode which it appears)

Abe:

• Abe broke off his and Anna's engagement 3 years prior to the start of the series (1x01)

• Abraham doesn't love Mary (2x01)

• Abe wanted to wear the redcoat since he was little (4x03)

Ben:

• Ben is a virgin (1x04)

• Ben studied Greek, Hebrew, and Latin (1x06)

• Ben graduated Yale in 1773 (1x06)

• "They're using your old schoolhouse as a magazine" Does this imply Ben taught there? (1x10)

• Anna comforted Ben after he cried getting stung by a bee when he was 8 (3x05)

• Ben hasn't seen Abe/Setauket in at least 3 years (1x10)

• Ben appears to want to top in bed (3x04)

Caleb:

• Caleb has been to Greenland (1x01)

• Caleb can't go back to Setauket (1x01)

• Caleb has a sister named Loretta (1x02)

• Caleb had sex with a woman in New Haven who taught him "ironic" (1x03)

• Caleb harbors sexism (1x03)

• Caleb thinks Abe "married the wrong woman" (1x03)

• Caleb's dad died "a few years back" of palsy (1x08)

• Caleb has a sister still alive with palsy (1x08)

• Caleb speaks the Oneida language (2x01)

• Caleb is bad at math (2x08)

• Caleb can play the lute (3x03)

• Caleb is not religious (4x08)

Mary:

• Mary only met Thomas once (1x03)

• Mary's brother died of croup (1x04)

• Mary's maiden name is Blake

Simcoe:

• Simcoe is Welsh (1x01)

• Simcoe has been to Guyana and the Caribbean (1x02)

• Simcoe secretly writes love poetry (2x02)

• Simcoe can be good with kids (3x05)

• Simcoe is Lieutenant Colonel by 4x01

• Simcoe is implied to be a generous lover (4x02)

• Simcoe was born in India (4x02)

• Simcoe has never set foot on England (4x02)

• Simcoe lost his dad at 10 years old (4x02)

• Simcoe wants for a wife (4x03)

• Simcoe can't stomach Cuban cigars due to losing many "dear friends" to yellow fever in Havana (4x04)

• Simcoe has respect for a WOC prostitute (4x06)

• Simcoe is willing to bottom for a WOC prostitute (4x06)

• Simcoe wants his partner to enjoy sex as much as he does (4x06)

• Simcoe thinks Washington is a man of honor (4x09)

Hewlett:

• Hewlett's never partied before (2x01)

• Hewlett draws (2x03)

• Hewlett was forced to join the military because his family faced bankruptcy from boycotts (2x04)

• Hewlett is named after Halley's comet (2x04)

• Hewlett considered killing himself (2x07)

• Hewlett is from Scotland (3x02)

• "As always" Hewlett's romance was one-sided (3x04)

• Hewlett has an uncle (4x06)

• Hewlett got a knife from his uncle who got it in Colluden from a Jacobite (4x06)

Andre:

• Andre knows what the clitoris is (1x04)

• Andre was a POW (1x06)

• Andre is a nerd for inventions (2x02)

• Andre can play the violin (2x02)

• Andre's mother was Swiss and his father was French (2x04)

• Andre has no land (2x04)

• Andre has scars from being rejected by a woman for his lower class (2x04)

• Andre is self conscious (2x06)

• Andre yeeted with Ben Franklin's inventions (2x09)

• Andre would read Shakespeare's sonnets to Peggy (3x04)

Rogers:

• Rogers was married and fell in love with another woman (1x02)

• Rogers needs to "settle his estate" (1x04)

• Rogers has read the Declaration (3x01)

• Rogers has been downtrodden his entire career (3x01)

Akinbode:

• Akinbode has "other girls" but Abby is the important one (1x04)

• Akinbode is Masai (1x06)

• Akinbode is a first generation slave (1x07)

• Akinbode means "brave one" or "warrior" (1x08)

Abby:

• Abby was willing to keep working for Anna after being freed to help her (1x04)

• Abby calls Anna "Annie" (1x04)

• Abby hums/sings at Andre's house (3x01)

• Cicero was a breach baby (4x09)

Arnold:

• Benedict Arnold values Ben's brother (2x03)

• Arnold was supposed to go to Yale before his father spent all his tuition on alcohol (2x04)

• Arnold's previous wife was named Margaret (2x09)

• Arnold's house servant escaped from Mount Vernon (4x01)

Other (Setauket):

• Deyong is married (1x02)

• Selah knew Samuel his whole life (1x07)

• Nathaniel Tallmadge fought in the French and Indian War (1x09)

• Baker is an orphan and his mother is implied to be a prostitute (1x09)

• Wakefield set up the garrison at Strong Manor and called it Fort St. George (4x01)

• Wakefield is married (4x02)

Other (Rangers):

• The Rangers have a boat (2x02)

• The Rangers are stationed at farms around Harlem (4x05)

• Rangers hang out at Shields Tavern (4x05)

• A lot of Rangers were Continentals before becoming Rangers (4x09)

Misc:

• Genevieve was a beautiful tavern wench at the Elizabethtown Tavern (1x08)

• Austin Roe and Rivington are in Abe's spy book as 724 and 726 (1x10) (Culpepper Jr is also in as 723 so cannot be used to claim Rivington as a spy)

• The Townsends have a dog named Nellie (3x05)

• Hercules Mulligan has Admiral Sanders for a father in law (4x02)

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turnposting vol. 5

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I gotta talk about this song one more time

This song applies to every single one of the characters shown with what they are currently going through.

Arnold just drove Peggy away by yelling at her over the boyfriend (husband. We respect non-ceremonial promises in this household) she had lost. This is really the beginning of their marriage becoming loveless. He just emotionally separated from her, and the lyrics that play are about being separated from a loved one.

Akinbode is desperately trying to gather the money to return to Abigail and take her and Cicero to Canada to be free. He traveled all over, and is planning to travel even further. The lyrics that play for him are about traveling great distances to make it back to a loved one.

Abe's father just died. And as he lay there, holding his father's dead hand, the song talks about mourning the loss of a loved one.

Ben just perpetuated his and Caleb's cycle of unobstructed loyalty and streak of saving each other's asses when he obtained Caleb from his torturers, then saved him from their attempted-assassinators. The lyrics that play are about being loyal and reliable because of HOW IN LOVE THEY ARE!

Why these two never kissed, I will forever be perplexed.

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TURN Week 2025: favourite under appreciated episode

Episode 1x5: Epiphany x Read 'em John.

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Ben Tallmadge in That CoatTM (his clips only)

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Turn Hot Bracket: Round 2, Poll 3

Akinbode

John Andre

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Music of TURN

Round 24

Thanks for being patient as I edit, was not doing so well post marching band and then had to finish my anthropology readings.

Pick Your Favorite

Jock O'Hazeldean

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Jock O'Hazeldean

1.08: Challenge

I love this song. I love it... but not so much the scene that accompanies. And yet, it still oddly fits. Anna has always held onto love for Abe even after she married Selah and he Mary. (Mary and Selah deserved way better). And after learning Selah is 'dead' she moves to Abe, who in this would represent Jock O'Hazeldean. I don't have much else on it as I feel it's pretty straight forward.

Read 'Em John

1.05: Epiphany

I've already talked about how masterful this scene in worked in with Rule Britannia. But time to focus on this scene. I absolutely love how the hammering of the attainder that announces the emancipation of all enslaved peoples of Strong Manor, falls near on beat with the song. Except not exactly freed, which I think is a great countenance to the lyrics of Rule Britannia.

I'm including two recordings of live performances, because it adds so much more context than a studio recording.

Also sorry that this was rushed out. I WAY overslept before class and didn't have time to finish my analysis. I'll edit this post when I get home

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“one cannot speak truth to power if power has no use for truth. for all their talk of liberty and virtue, the patriots are as zealous and intolerant as the enemy they seek to defeat.”