This is a table of contents to the major pages in this sub site, which is devoted to the history of the Gaspee Affair.  Information and analysis are at this site.

American history: English Navy ship Gaspee attack.

• Site Map
• 1772 Rhode Island attack on the British Navy armed schooner Gaspee
  • 1772 attack on the British Navy schooner Gaspee, part II
  • Sample Encyclopedia Reference to Gaspee Attack.
  • Geography, Distances, and Tides of Attack
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  • Order of Events in the attack on Gaspee
  • Answers to Questions about Events in the Gaspee Affair of the American Revolution
  • Who shot first in the 1772 capture of the Gaspee?
  • Importance of the Gaspee Affair in American History.
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  • New information on longboats and men in first attack on British.
    • Number of Americans in the Gaspee attack.
      • Longboat Size Colonial Rhode Island before Revolution
    • Col. Simeon Potter brought Bristol men to attack the Gaspee
    • Capt. Greenwood brought Warren men to attack the Gaspee.
  • 18th Century American and English Ship Types
    • personsofinterest/HopkinsStephen.htm
    • Overview Ship Types
    • Gaspee Described
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      • images/History/Marblehead.jpg
      • images/ShipsAndMaps/Chaleur3.jpg
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      • images/ShipsAndMaps/Chaleur2.jpg
      • images/ShipsAndMaps/Chaleur1.jpg
      • images/ShipsAndMaps/Sultana.jpg
    • Schooner and Sloop
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    • Gaspee Pictures
    • Gaspee Crew
    • Brigentines Described
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      • images/ShipsAndMaps/brigantine_drawing.jpg
    • Brigantine Providence
      • Other Ships Providence
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    • Frigates Described
    • Frigate Rose
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    • Longboats of Attackers.
      • Gaspee History
      • images/ShipsAndMaps/Longboat_drawings.jpg
    • Whaleboats
    • Large English fleet assembled to stop the American rebellion.
• American use of courts and law as a weapon against English.
  • Law as Colonial Weapon II
  • Law as Colonial Weapon III
  • The Case of John Robinson vs. The Brigantine Providence
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  • Constitutional arguments of American colonists
  • Gaspee History
  • Gaspee History
• American attempt to arrest English Captain and jail him.
  • Mob as Police Force in colonial Rhode Island and Massachusetts
• Forensic History: definition and description
  • Occam's Razor
• List of Americans in Gaspee Attack Force
  • The first shot in the American Revolution.
    • Who fired the first shot in the American Revolution?
    • Joseph Bucklin 4th Biography
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      • images/ShipsAndMaps/NarBay1777_NW_Bucklin.jpg
    • Biography of Joseph Bucklin 5th
  • Ephraim Bowen Biographical Material
  • John Mawney doctor at American assault on Gaspee
  • The Brown Brothers, prominent persons of Providence Rhode Island
    • John Brown
    • Joseph Brown
    • Moses Brown
  • Rehoboth Connections with Providence
  • Raider Relationships
• Persons you should know about to understand the Gaspee Affair.
  • personsofinterest/AdamsJohn.htm
  • personsofinterest/AdamsSamuel.htm
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• Statements of Participants in Gaspee Affair
  • EPHRAIM BOWEN'S ACCOUNT OF THE ATTACK UPON THE GASPEE
  • Briggs Statement
    • Gaspee History
  • Mawney Statement
  • Dudingston's First Report of the Distruction of the Gaspee
    • Legal commentary on Dudingston's First Report
    • Dudingston Petition to King for Relief
• Post Gaspee Events
  • Legal Events
  • Commission to Investigate
  • Navy Court-Martial
  • Proclamation-1772
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    • Post Gaspee Events
    • 1000 Pounds
    • Gaspee History
• Bibliography of Gaspee Attack of 1772.
  • Gaspee Scholars