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The Gaspée Affair was a significant event in the lead-up to the American Revolution. HMS Gaspée , a British revenue schooner that had been enforcing unpopular trade regulations, ran aground in sha...
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On June 9, 1772, the Gaspee was chasing a merchant ship believed to be smuggling goods. The Gaspee ran aground in Narragansett Bay, near Providence. The next night, a group of men boarded the Gaspee. They were led by John Brown, a wealthy merchant from Providence.
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These events are all designed to commemorate the 1772 burning of the hated British revenue schooner, HMS Gaspee, by Rhode Island patriots as America's 'First Blow for Freedom' TM; ... MEDIUM: Revolutionary Fire: The Gaspee Incident [50 Kb ~20 pages]. (Link courtesy of the RI Council for the Humanities.)
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On June 9th, 1772, Capt. Thomas Lindsay set out from the harbor of Newport intending to come up Providence. He expected that the Gaspee would catch sight of him and that he would very probably be stopped and his cargo searched, but he made up his mind not to allow this if he could help it.
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www.gaspee.org/Haley.html
www.gaspee.org/Haley.html
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In June of 1772, a dramatic event was to demonstrate the severity of the crisis. A Lieutenant William Duddington, of Her Majesty's Ship Gaspee, was charged with patrolling the waters of Narragansett Bay, off Rhode Island.
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www.ushistory.org/declaration/related/gaspee.htm
www.ushistory.org/declaration/related/gaspee.htm
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The colonial distruction of the English ship Gaspee was the first act of war in the American Revoluntion. ... The 1772 Gaspee Affair --- the Rhode Island men's attack on the Gaspee --- was officially declared by the English Attorney General as the first act of war by the Americans. For the English government this was...
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The Gaspée Incident: 10 June 1772 ... On the night of 9 June 1772, the Gaspée ran aground a few miles from Providence. Early the next morning the ship was boarded, Dudingston was wounded, he and his crew were put ashore and the ship was burned.
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www.historyhome.co.uk/c-eight/america/gaspee.htm
www.historyhome.co.uk/c-eight/america/gaspee.htm
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These events are all designed to commemorate the burning of the hated British revenue schooner, HMS Gaspee, by Rhode Island patriots in 1772 as America's; 'First Blow for Freedom' TM...
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www.gaspee.com/
www.gaspee.com/
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; The Gaspee Incident in Fictio ... In Defense of Liberty: A Story of the Burning Schooner Gaspee in 1772, (c1908): by William Pendleton Chipman. New York: A. L. Burt Co. 280 pages. Part of the "Navy Boys in Defense of Liberty" series. Library of Congress # 08010281.
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