Hercules Mulligan

We have some incredible cast on there.

We have Oak, who was the original Hercules Mulligan from Hamilton on Broadway.

He's on the album.

Phil Richardson from Hell's Kitchen.

Um, you know, even sort of obv- obvious things.

But people like, um, Hercules Mulligan.

He was a tailor and a spy from Coleraine, and he's in the play, um, Hamilton.

And there's a whole song about him, and he basically measured the Redcoats' uniforms and informed, uh, uh, to Washington, told him to go the other way, and saved his life multiple times.

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So is it my, my shot? Is that the one with, um, Hercules Mulligan and, um, no,

no. You're thinking of the, you're thinking of the song before that.

Um, cause my shot is I am not throwing away my shot.

I was just giving little hints.

I have another really interesting character, Hercules Mulligan.

And he is a character in the play Hamilton.

And he was from Coleraine and he was a tailor and a spy.

Yes.

One of the most successful spies ever was.

Hercules Mulligan.

He saved Washington from being assassinated multiple times.

Sympathizing with the Patriot cause, he joined the New York branch of the Sons of Liberty, arrested in 1776 as a spy but quickly pardoned, then detained for 18 months on a boat as an interpreter for Hessian troops since he could speak German.

He used his new position to help prisoners of war from the Continental Army escape, encouraged Hessian troops to desert, and collaborated with Hercules Mulligan and Cato to carry out other acts of espionage.

In 1778, he was arrested again, convicted of espionage, and sentenced to death.

He eventually escaped and made his way with his family to Philadelphia, where the Continental Congress was located.