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[darchildre]

So, I have been reading a lot of nonfiction about the Revolutionary War of late, because of reasons. It has been a long time since I read this much nonfiction about history. Or, indeed, anything that wasn't some kind of literary analysis, usually of horror film. Mostly, I read fiction about people with magic or spaceships or superpowers. Or all three.

Which makes you read differently. I read history like I read fiction: for the story. And since I'm reading my current nonfiction mostly for entertainment purposes, I find my brain engaging with it the same way it engages with other stories that are entirely fictional and that I'm fannish about. Which is: a) I want to know every detail of canon, b) I will then decide which details are important to me (and keep them) and which details are terrible (and discard them), c) I will then make up my own crazy-ass stories.

All of which is to say that today it occurred to me that several events during the Revolutionary War make a lot more sense if you accept the premise that George Washington had minor (possibly unconscious) weather controlling powers, and that that's basically a headcanon I have now for all future reading of 18th century American history.

(I would read that hell out of a novel where the Founding Fathers had magic powers. Someone should get on that, just saying.)

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[schneefink]

it occurred to me that several events during the Revolutionary War make a lot more sense if you accept the premise that George Washington had minor (possibly unconscious) weather controlling powers

Premise accepted!
I even read a Revolutionary War AU with magical powers already, but I don't remember if it had weather control.

[the_rck]

Patriot Witch by C.C. Finlay involves magic during the Revolutionary War, but I don't think any of the Founding Fathers have magic in it. I only read part of the book, however, and it's the first in a series, so who knows?

Patricia Wrede's Frontier Magic series takes place in a world where the Founding Fathers (particularly Jefferson and Franklin) did have magic, but that's history within the books. There are also, as you may have heard, other issues with the series. I can't find any fic on AO3 for it; I was hoping maybe somebody had dug into the history of the setting.

Amazon lists Chimmeken Crossing the Delaware by D. Lee Jortner as a fantasy in which magical creatures secretly aid the revolutionary forces. Amazon also has a ebook short story called The First American Warlock. There's not much of a blurb, but the cover art shows General Washington.