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About John Concannon

John Concannon

John Concannon is historian for the Gaspee Days Committee in Warwick, Rhode Island, and webmaster of the Gaspee Virtual Archives at http://gaspee.org. In his other life Dr. Concannon is a practicing pediatrician in Cranston, Rhode Island.
Latest Posts | By John Concannon
Benoni Simmons: Long-Serving Hero of the American Revolution
1 week ago

Benoni Simmons: Long-Serving Hero of the American Revolution

By  •  Rhode Island - General

The amazing story of Benoni Simmons’s military service in the American Revolution spans some fourteen years, perhaps the longest term of service by anyone in that conflict. More so, his …
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The Conspiracy to Destroy the Gaspee
7 years ago

The Conspiracy to Destroy the Gaspee

By  •  American Revolution and Revolutionary War, Maritime

With but few exceptions,[1] it has usually been surmised by historians that the 1772 attack on the Royal Navy schooner Gaspee was a spontaneous response to the accidental grounding of …
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