Did a daring nighttime raid in the waters of Narragansett Bay launch the American Revolution? Rhode Island colonists attacked and burned the British revenue schooner Gaspee in 1772; eighteen months before the Boston Tea Party. So why don’t history books credit Rhode Island with being the first to spark the rebellion? One local man heads to court to prove the Ocean State is a victim of identity theft.
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