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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. A group of men led by Abraham Whipple and John Brown I attacked, boarded, and burned the Gaspee to the waterline. [2]
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.
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.
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.
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.
The public can participate in the search for the Gaspee this summer in two ways: watching the work and volunteering as a searcher.
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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