Rhode Island – General

For all that has been written about Newport and Aquidneck Island during the Revolutionary War — three years under British and German occupation, war’s first major joint Franco-American operation, the …
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The Battle of Rhode Island Association (BoRIA) has released a new documentary film on the Battle of Rhode Island, fought on August 29, 1778. It was the largest engagement fought …
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The Rhode Island General Assembly voted to repeal Rhode Island’s allegiance to King George III of Great Britain on May 4, 1776. Rhode Island was the first and only one …
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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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Charles Henry Gosselin had not yet turned two years old when the probate court of Providence committed him to the county orphanage in 1924. He spent his infancy there …
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[Note from the editor:  Jedidiah Morse (1761-1826) prepared surveys of each of the states of the new United States in the 1780s. He prepared one for Rhode Island in 1789; …
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[Note from the editor: The Know-Nothing Party, which became formally known as the American Party, made a splash in Rhode Island briefly from 1854 to 1856. Supporters of the Know …
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In early 1778, from the headquarters of the Continental Army in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, General George Washington’s aide-de-camp, John Laurens, wrote several letters to his father Henry who had recently …
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Old Home Days was a mid-nineteenth century New England tradition in which former sons and daughters of a town returned to the town of their birth for a reunion. The …
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[From the editor:  According to its website, “The Carnegie Hero Fund awards the Carnegie Medal to individuals in the United States and Canada who risk death or serious physical injury …
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