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  2. Gaspee affair - Wikipedia

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    The Gaspee affair was a significant event in the lead-up to the American Revolution. HMS Gaspee was a Royal Navy revenue schooner that enforced the Navigation Acts around Newport, Rhode Island, in 1772. [1] It ran aground in shallow water while chasing the packet boat Hannah on June 9 off Warwick, Rhode Island.

  3. HMS Gaspee - Wikipedia

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    Several ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name Gaspee (or Gaspe): Gaspee (1763) was a revenue schooner famously destroyed in the 1772 Gaspee Affair in Narragansett Bay. [1] HMS Gaspée was a schooner or brig purchased in North America, and captured on 23 November 1775. Her captors scuttled her but the Royal Navy retrieved her in May 1776.

  4. Historiography of the Gaspee affair - Wikipedia

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    The historiography of the Gaspee affair examines the changing views of historians and scholars with regard to the burning of HMS Gaspee, a British customs schooner that ran aground while patrolling coastal waters near Newport, Rhode Island and was boarded and destroyed by colonists during the lead up to the American Revolution in 1772.

  5. Gaspee Days 2024: Rhode Islanders celebrate the burning of ...

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    WARWICK – More than 250 years ago, Rhode Island colonists had a grudge against the HMS Gaspee and the Royal Navy ship's captain. They settled that grudge by burning his ship to the waterline.

  6. Battle of Golden Hill - Wikipedia

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    The Battle of Golden Hill was a clash between British soldiers and the Sons of Liberty in the American colonies that occurred on January 19, 1770, in New York City.Along with the Boston Massacre and the Gaspée Affair, the event was one of the early violent incidents in what would become the American Revolution.

  7. Can you answer this Rhode Island themed question they asked ...

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    A depiction of the sinking of the Gaspee in Narragansett Bay, a militant act of rebellion that predated the Boston Tea Party and the Battles of Lexington and Concord.

  8. RI Gaspee license plate distribution set for Oct. 14. What to ...

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    More than 700 Rhode Island drivers have ordered the charity plates, which depict the burning of British revenue ship HMS Gaspee. RI Gaspee license plate distribution set for Oct. 14. What to know.

  9. Abraham Whipple - Wikipedia

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    An early incident occurred on June 9, 1772, when Whipple led 50 Rhode Islanders in the capture and burning of the British revenue cutter Gaspee. The ship had run aground off Pawtuxet while chasing the packet Hannah. The burning initiated an exchange of notes between Whipple and Captain James Wallace of HMS Rose.

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