On Foundings: 254 years later, my town holds a parade every year celebrating the night fed up Rhode Islanders captured and burned a customs enforcement ship after heavy handed official harrassment. No one ever snitched. #GaspeeAffair

A burned British ship. No one confessed. 🇬🇧🔥

Ep. 373 dives into the Gaspee Affair, a bold act of resistance in 1772 Rhode Island that set the stage for revolution.

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#GaspeeAffair #VastEarlyAmerica #History #AmericanRevolution #Revolution250

Episode 373: Adrian Weimer, The Gaspee Affair The often overlooked Gaspee Affair played an essential role in drawing the thirteen rebellious colonies into a union of coordinated response.

Before the Boston Tea Party, there was the Gaspee Affair. ⛵🔥

In Ep. 373, Adrian Weimer explores how Rhode Islanders attacked a British ship—and helped spark the Revolution.

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#GaspeeAffair #VastEarlyAmerica #History #AmericanRevolution #Revolution250

Not my blue state. We'll die defending it and us. Make no mistake, we will not go quietly. #gaspeedays #rhodeisland #newengland #gaspeeaffair #americanrevolution

A burned British ship. No one confessed. 🇬🇧🔥

Ep. 373 dives into the Gaspee Affair, a bold act of resistance in 1772 Rhode Island that set the stage for revolution.

🎧 benfranklinsworld.com/373

#GaspeeAffair #VastEarlyAmerica #History #AmericanRevolution #Revolution250

Episode 373: Adrian Weimer, The Gaspee Affair The often overlooked Gaspee Affair played an essential role in drawing the thirteen rebellious colonies into a union of coordinated response.

Before the Boston Tea Party, there was the Gaspee Affair. ⛵🔥

In Ep. 373, Adrian Weimer explores how Rhode Islanders attacked a British ship—and helped spark the Revolution.

🎧 benfranklinsworld.com/373

#GaspeeAffair #VastEarlyAmerica #History #AmericanRevolution #Revolution250

Gaspee schooner burned by Rhode islanders and which sparked the American revolution

#gaspeeaffair #gaspeedays #sonsofliberty #rhodeisland #newengland #Americanrevolution #donotcomply #showofforce #3E #opUSA #resistance

Rhode Island was the birthplace of the revolution with the Gaspee Days #gaspeeaffair #americanrevolution #gaspeedays #sonsofliberty #rhodeisland

I am a girl from Warwick, RI. I am not willing to tolerate tyranny. I have learned how to deal with tyranny. This is not the Boston Tesla Party. This is the Tesla Affair, in honor of the Gaspee Affair. Boston didn't start everything with the Revolution. Rhode Island did.

#GaspeeAffair #1stConflict