Founding Fathers: Dead!?

What would be the effects on the American Revolutionary War if George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, and James Madison all died through one cause or another?
Would it be a more violent revolution?
 
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the statistics are unlikely that they all would be dead before the revolution.

If JQA dies than there would not be an alliance with the french.
 
George Washington: Easy to kill him off, he was a soldier.
Benjamin Franklin: Old, easy enough.

will do others after dinner
 
Hamilton could've killed both Jefferson and Madison in seperate duels. One or both of the Continental Congresses could've been discovered by the British. They weren't all there at once so this wouldn't necessarily crush the Revolution
 
Do you mean at the same time, in battle, hung for treason, killed when Philadelphia falls, or just in succession ?

I would go so far as to say the result may not be much at all, since we name these names because they are the ones which stand out to us, but some of them stand out for what they did AFTERWARDS, some for what they did in other areas (Franklin), so remove this core group, and you have another core group - Henry Lee etc

Best Regards
Grey Wolf
 
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