On this day in 1772,
The British revenue schooner, The Gaspée, runs aground near Warwick, RI. Abraham Whipple leads a band of Colonists in the attack on the ship. The ship was boarded, looted and burned, in an action preceding the Revolutionary War.
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The British revenue schooner, The Gaspée, runs aground near Warwick, RI. Abraham Whipple leads a band of Colonists in the attack on the ship. The ship was boarded, looted and burned, in an action preceding the Revolutionary War.
More Colonial Battles
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