[skeeter]

The man was at the center of every significant event for the few years leading up to June 17th, more so than any other.

I don't know if he would have ended up being as venerated as George Washington had he not taken his time evacuating the redoubt and been killed, but it would've been close.

[gusopol3]

Thomas Fleming really brought him to life in Now We are Enemies, his c. 1960 book about the battle. I think the consensus of his contemporaries would have been that he didn't belong in the redoubt. Amazing history how Revere identified his body months later by dental bridge work he had done as a silversmith. Fleming is pretty clear in his impression that Warren wasn't fighting for independence that day, but for American rights under the English constitution; so he hadn't come as far as Sam Adams.