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This is just a random thought I’ve had lately: for whatever reason, Paul Revere dies during the Boston Tea Party in a freak accident (maybe he slips and falls into the harbor and then a crate of tea hits him on the head and he drowns or something). obviously, this means he doesn’t participate in the Midnight Ride or any other event of the American Revolution and, in all likelihood, is an obscure figure that hardly anyone knows about (I’d think Longfellow would still write the poem, but it’d be slightly different). Any ideas on how an earlier death for Revere could affect the American Revolution, if at all, and who would take his place in the Midnight Ride? The only idea I have so far is that, as a butterfly effect of his death, Samuel Prescott is at least slightly more important and doesn’t apparently die in 1777 (the records are spotty on what actually happened to him IOTL)
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