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George Washington. A man of extreme importance in the history of the United States of America. He was the country's first President for two terms, and was commander-in-chief of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. He helped create the Constitution, which is now the backbone of democracy in the United States and has inspired the creation of constitutions across the globe. Washington is the name of America's capital and a state in the Pacific Northwest. His face is printed on the quarter, the one dollar bill, and blasted into the face of Mt. Rushmore. Numerous schools, streets, and counties are named after him. Even one of the United States' ten aircraft carriers bears his name.

In 1751, the future United States almost lost him to one of the world's most deadly diseases at the time, smallpox. On November 17, George Washington contracted smallpox while traveling with his older half-brother Lawrence to Barbados to help with the latter's tuberucol condition. Fortunately, George was able to survive the disease, and as a result, gained a life-long immunity to the virus.

However, what if Washington didn't survive? What if he succumbed to the virus, dying on an island in the Caribbean Sea? How would this alter the course of modern history? What would the world look like without George Washington?