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    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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    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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    Gaspee Point...
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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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