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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 of Warwick, Rhode Island.
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.
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.
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.
Gaspee Point was the site of one of the first acts in the American Revolution when the Royal Navy's HMS Gaspee was grounded there by American patriots on June 9, 1772 in what became known as the Gaspée affair. The Gaspee was a revenue schooner locally detested for its enforcement of the unpopular Navigation Acts.
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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 ...
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.