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Burning of the Gaspee — 1772
1772
HMS Gaspee Burned at Gaspee Point
1773
Royal Commission Fails to Prosecute Gaspee Raiders
1775
Abraham Whipple Commands Continental Navy Vessels

Warwick

RI · American Revolution

In June 1772, Warwick men boarded and burned the British customs schooner Gaspee in what many historians call the first true act of armed rebellion against Britain.

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Before the Tea Party

Everyone knows the Boston Tea Party. Fewer people know that eighteen months before Bostonians dumped tea into the harbor, sixty men from Providence and Warwick rowed out into Narragansett Bay, boarded...

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