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About 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.
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The Conspiracy to Destroy the Gaspee
5 years ago

The Conspiracy to Destroy the Gaspee

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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