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Tuesday, July 08, 2025
Rhode Island’s “vote for raising men”
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As soon as he heard about the shooting at Lexington , James Warren , delegate from Plymouth to the Massachusetts Provincial Congress , pass...
Tuesday, May 24, 2022
“A man of weak capacity, and little political knowledge”
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I hadn’t expected to write a week of postings about the Gaspee affair , even with its sestercentennial coming up next month. But I got int...
Monday, May 23, 2022
“All should be ready to yield Assistance to Rhode Island”
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We can see the logic of the London government’s decision to try people suspected of attacking H.M.S. Gaspee on 10 June 1772 in Britain, n...
Friday, April 22, 2016
John Howland and the Lexington Alarm in Providence
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Yesterday I quoted Elkanah Watson ’s description of how Providence, Rhode Island , responded to the Battle of Lexington and Concord . Acc...
Friday, December 20, 2013
Rhode Island’s First Major General
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A few days back, I quoted Samuel Ward ’s December 1774 letter describing how Rhode Island was putting itself on a footing for war by, amon...
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