Gaspee Point is a small peninsula on the west side of the southern reaches of the Providence River in Warwick, Rhode Island. It is bounded on the north...
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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...
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district Gaspee Affair, U.S. War of Independence HMS Gaspee, a Royal Navy shipname Gaspee Point, Rhode Island, United States Search for "gaspe" , "gaspee", or...
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Brush Neck Cove Buttonwoods Cedar Tree Point Chepiwanoxet Coles Conimicut Cowesett Duby Grove East Natick Gaspee Point Greenwood Governor Francis Farms Hillsgrove...
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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...
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Joseph Wanton (section Gaspee Affair)
was involved with a large array of issues and incidents, most notably the Gaspee Affair in 1772, where he played an important role in thwarting the crown...
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the name Gaspee (or Gaspe): Gaspee (1763) was a revenue schooner famously destroyed in the 1772 Gaspee Affair in Narragansett Bay. HMS Gaspée was a schooner...
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HMS Gaspée (or HMS Gaspe or HMS Gaspé) was purchased in North America in 1772, commissioned in 1773, and captured in 1775. The Royal Navy recaptured her...
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Pawtuxet Village (section Gaspee Days celebration)
Annual Gaspee Days Parade". WPRI. Retrieved June 11, 2023. "About The Gaspee Days Committee". Gaspee Days Committee. Retrieved June 11, 2023. "Gaspee Days...
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survived. Dredge #7 United States The dredge caught fire and sank off Gaspee Point, Providence, Rhode Island. E. Marie Brown United States The schooner...
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The Hunters Point social uprising (also known as the Hunters Point Riot or Rebellion) broke out in the Hunters Point neighborhood of San Francisco on the...
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Colonists and the Ecology of New England (New York) 1983. DRC. "Gaspee Days Committee". Gaspee.com. Archived from the original on February 3, 2010. Retrieved...
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Gaspee Point...
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The ship was wrecked on Anticosti Island, Quebec, British North America. She was on a voyage from Guernsey to Gaspee Point, Rhode Island, United States....
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Point. On January 1, 1639, Williams sold a share to Coles that included an inland meadow and land at Passeonkquis Cove and Namquid, now called Gaspee...
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Whiskey Rebellion (redirect from Whiskey Point)
being threatened with violence by the Mingo Creek Association. From this point on, tax collectors were not the only people targeted in Pennsylvania; those...
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73°58′26″W / 41.241°N 73.974°W / 41.241; -73.974 The Battle of Stony Point took place on July 16, 1779, during the American Revolutionary War. In a...
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British naval casualty of the American Revolution, the revenue cutter Gaspee, in the Gaspée Affair. The first to unfurl the Star Spangled Banner in London,...
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Theodore Foster (category Burials at Swan Point Cemetery)
Island and Providence Plantations Arthur Fenner. Foster played a role in the Gaspee Affair of 1772, along with John Brown and others, which helped catalyze...
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John Cole (judge) (section Gaspee Affair)
to the plan and execution of the burning of the British revenue schooner Gaspee that ran aground near Pawtuxet, Rhode Island. He was deeply complicit with...
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spurred colonial attacks on British ships, including the burning of the Gaspee in 1772. The Townshend Acts' taxation of imported tea was enforced once...
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Capture of Fort Ticonderoga (redirect from Battle of Crown Point)
seizing Ticonderoga, a small detachment captured the nearby Fort Crown Point on May 11. Seven days later, Arnold and 50 men raided Fort Saint-Jean on...
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Benedict Arnold (section Offer to surrender West Point)
Washington had given him his fullest trust and had placed him in command of West Point in New York. Arnold was planning to surrender the fort to British forces...
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is also noted for the first bloodshed of the American Revolution in the Gaspée Affair. Additionally, Providence is notable for economic shifts, moving...
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History of An Idea. New York: Thames & Hudson. p. 42. "Welcome". Gaspee Virtual Archives. Gaspee Days Committee. Archived from the original on August 30, 2012...
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torched by a Rhode Island mob in what became known as the Gaspee Affair. In the aftermath of the Gaspee Affair, Greene became increasingly alienated from the...
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he does, but he also reads it, noting it concerns a meeting aboard The Gaspee. Kenny runs back to his house and returns to his own time. Kenny asks Caleb...
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Treaty of Paris (1763) Boston Massacre British credit crisis of 1772–1773 Gaspee affair Hutchinson letters affair Boston Tea Party Philadelphia Tea Party...
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down, because they needed a location for a reception for him. Until that point, it had not been usual in the United States to build monuments, but Lafayette's...
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