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Script error: No such module "Infobox military conflict". The Gaspee Affair was a significant event in the lead-up to the American Revolution. HMS Gaspee was a British customs schooner that had been enforcing the Navigation Acts in and around Newport, Rhode Island in 1772. It ran aground in shallow water while chasing the packet ship Hannah on June 9 near Gaspee Point in Warwick, Rhode Island. A group of men led by Abraham Whipple and John Brown attacked, boarded, and torched the ship. The event increased tensions between the American colonists and British officials, following the Boston Massacre in 1770. British officials in Rhode Island wanted to increase their control over trade—legitimate trade as well as smuggling—in order to increase their revenue from the small colony. But Rhode Islanders increasingly protested the Stamp Act, the Townshend Acts, and other British impositions that had clashed with the colony's history of rum manufacturing, maritime trade, and slave trading. This event and others in Narragansett Bay marked the first acts of violent uprising against the British crown's authority in America, preceding the Boston Tea Party by more than a year and moving the Thirteen Colonies as a whole toward the war for independence.

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  1. Bartlett, John Russell (1861). A History of the Destruction of His Britannic Majesty's Schooner Gaspee, in Narragansett Bay, on the 10th June, 1772: Accompanied by the Correspondence Connected Therewith; the Action of the General Assembly of Rhode Island Thereon, and the Official Journal of the Proceedings of the Commission of Inquiry, on the Same. A. C. Greene, printer to the state. https://books.google.com/books?id=Xr80AQAAMAAJ. Retrieved 7 June 2018. 
  2. See Barrow, Thomas C. Trade and Empire: The British Customs Service in Colonial America, 1660–1775 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1967) especially page 177. See also Gipson, Lawrence Henry, The British Empire Before the American Revolution, Vol. XII The Triumphant Empire: Britain Sails into the Storm, 1770–1776. (New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1965) especially page 26 footnote 79.
  3. Warships of the world to 1900, Volume 799, Ships of the World Series:Warships of the World to 1900, Lincoln P. Paine (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2000) pg. 95 [1]
  4. Lovejoy, David S. (1958). Rhode Island Politics and the American Revolution, 1760-1776. Providence: Brown University Press. pp. 157. Governor Wanton and Lieutenant Dudingston discussed the 1769 burning of the Liberty in their first meeting. In the burning, Rhode Islanders destroyed and set fire to the British vessel in Newport, allowing the ships to escape that had been seized by the Liberty. Wanton implied that Dudingston might find the same troubles years later, which prompted Dudingston to send the Fortune to Boston.. 
  5. Staples (1845), p. 7.
  6. Staples (1845), p. 6.
  7. Samuel Greene Arnold, History of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Vol. 2, New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1859.
  8. Staples (1845), p. 3.
  9. Staples (1845), p. 4.
  10. Staples (1845), p. 8.
  11. This version of the story is told by Ephraim Bowen and John Mawney in Staples (1845), pp. 14–16. These men made these statements in 1826 relying on their memories from 67 years earlier.
  12. Arthur M Schlesinger, Sr. "Political Mobs and the American Revolution, 1765-1776," Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, 90:4 (1955), 245.
  13. "Joseph Bucklin V Biography". http://bucklinsociety.net/bucklin-family-history/joseph-bucklin-4th-family/joseph-bucklin-5th-bio/. Retrieved 3 December 2016. 
  14. Staples (1845)
  15. Staples (1845), p. xxxii
  16. Edward Thurlow and Alexander Wedderburn (the Attorney and Solicitor General) wrote to the Earl of Hillsborough on August 10, 1772 dismissing the Dockyard Act and demanding the charge of high treason instead for levying war against the King. National Archives (Public Record Office, United Kingdom) CO (Colonial Office Records) 5 159 folder 26.
  17. G. Jack Gravelee and James R. Irvine, eds. Pamphlets and the American Revolution: Rhetoric, Politics, Literature, and the Popular Press (Delmare, NY: Scholars' Facsimiles & Reprints, 1976), viii.
  18. Staples (1845), p. 16.
  19. Staples (1845), p. 14.
  20. Staples (1845), p. 17.
  21. Staples (1845), pp. 17–20.
  22. "Gaspee Days Committee". http://www.gaspee.com/. 
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