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1) A little maid of Narragansett Bay

Author

Curtis, Alice Turner

Language

English

Description

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Penelope Balfour and her brother Ted find ways to provide help to the American patriots camped near their Rhode Island farm during the Revolutionary War.

2) A dependent people: Newport, Rhode Island, in the Revolutionary era

Author

Crane, Elaine Forman

Publisher

Fordham University Press

Language

English

3) The Rhode Island Colony

Author

Fradin, Dennis B

Publisher

Childrens Press

Pub. Date

1989.

Language

English

Description

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Traces the history of Rhode Island to 1790 when it became the last colony to ratify the Constitution.

4) Rhode Island Quakers in the American Revolution: 1775-1790

Publisher

[Providence Monthly Meeting]

Pub. Date

1976.

Language

English

Formats

Book, Pamphlet

5) "With their usual ardor": Scituate, Rhode Island and the American Revolution

Author

Grandchamp, Robert

Publisher

Heritage Books

Pub. Date

2006.

Language

English

6) Minority military service, Rhode Island, 1775-1783

Publisher

National Society, Daughters of the American Revolution

Pub. Date

1988.

Language

English

7) General orders, Rhode Island: December 1776-January 1778

Publisher

Heritage Books

Pub. Date

2001.

Language

English

8) Burning the Gaspee: revolution in Rhode Island

Author

Raven, Rory

Pub. Date

2012.

Language

English

Formats

Book, eBook, Kindle

Description

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This book chronicles the history of the HMS Gaspee, a sloop in the British Royal Navy that was sent to patrol the waters of Narragansett Bay in 1772. The Gaspee cracked down on smugglers and enforced British customs regulation, particularly the Stamp Act. The ship and her captain, William Duddington, were quickly hated by colonists for their campaign of brutality, harassment, and arbitrary enforcement. When the Gaspee ran around in shallow waters,...

9) Rhode Island repudiation: or, The history of the revolutionary debt of Rhode Island : in three chapters

Author

Richmond, John W

Publisher

Sayles, Miller & Simons

Pub. Date

1855.

Language

English

10) Rhode Islanders record the Revolution: the journals of William Humphrey and Zuriel Waterman

Series

Rhode Island revolutionary heritage ; 4

Publisher

Rhode Island Publications Society

Pub. Date

1984.

Language

English

11) Kidnapping the enemy: the special operations to capture generals Charles Lee & Richard Prescott

Author

McBurney, Christian M

Language

English

Formats

Book, eBook, Kindle

Description

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The Daring Raid to Kidnap a British General in Order to Gain Freedom for the Highest Ranking Continental Officer Captured During the American Revolution On the night of December 12, 1776, while on a reconnaissance mission in New Jersey, Lieutenant Colonel William Harcourt and Cornet Banastre Tarleton of the British dragoons learned from Loyalist informers that Major General Charles Lee, the second-in-command in the Continental army behind only...