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Amazing Letter Discovered from a Black Soldier of the First Rhode Island Regiment— Containing a Shocking Request
Last spring, Patrick Donovan, the talented and hardworking curator at the Varnum Memorial Armory Museum in East Greenwich, announced his discovery of a handwritten letter from a formerly enslaved man …
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4 years ago
Saving Rhode Island’s Historic Lighthouses
Rhode Island’s first lighthouse was constructed in 1749 on Beavertail Point, the southern tip of Conanicut Island (better known as Jamestown). Initially named Newport Light, Beavertail followed Massachusetts’s 1716 Boston …
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4 years ago
L’Expédition Particuliere: Winter 1780, Newport, and the Battle of Cape Henry
[This article originally ran in the Journal of the American Revolution, at www.allthingsliberty.com]
In July 1780, after three and half months at sea, nearly 6,000 thousand men[1] and supplies crammed …
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