Tragic possibility. But aha, there was a second rider! At least, I think there was, some poor chap with a name apparently less memorable than Paul Revere. Anyone want to correct me on my revisionist history comment to this revisionist history tale?

Wow, imagine if that had happened. Imaginative retelling.

wonderful illustration of the Revolutionary War..

That would have been something. I liked that he was silenced by a shot to the throat.

Great story, as usual. Such a real possibility, I shivered when I thought about the what the odds of that actually happening could have been. :/
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Also, I believe you are correct, THX . Unfortunately for him (and thankfully for the rest of us) we don’t know his name unless we are up on our obscure trivia. (Which is probably going to drive me into a research frenzy… ;D)

William dawes and others.

Yeah, THX was right in his guess. That could’ve happened, but the obscure people sounding the alarm wouldn’t have been so obscure if this scenario happened. It’s kind of like the trumpeter in Poland who played faithfully, even during a war, and was silenced in the middle of his song by an arrow. They still play up there, sour last note and all.
Anywho, nice going.

love the slight mocking of the british. its a cool idea, and well-written. i wonder what kind of repercussions this might actually have had. thanks for entering!