British military command votes early in December…
December 1774 CE
On December 12, intelligence received by Paul Revere indicates that a seizure of stores at Fort William and Mary in Portsmouth, New Hampshire is imminent.
He rides from Boston to Portsmouth the next day to notify the local Patriots, who quickly raid the fort on the fourteenth and remove its supplies.
Revere's intelligence had been incorrect; although a British operation had been contemplated, it had not been ordered.
The British do send ships carrying troops to Portsmouth, and they arrive three days after the fort's supplies were removed.
The first arrives on the 17th, and is directed into shallows at high tide by a local Patriot pilot, much to the captain's anger.
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