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Read the history of the Gaspee Attack.

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Read the identities and facts about each Raider.
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In the
American war of independence ---- the Gaspee Attack was the first planned
use of force, against the English military forces, and included the first shot
intended to kill an English military officer.
The 1772 Gaspee Affair --- the Rhode Island men's attack on the Gaspee
--- was officially
declared by the English to be the first act of war.
This was the true beginning of the American Revolutionary War. This is
where the American Revolutionary War started!
There are two divisions of this Gaspee Info site: the Gaspee
Attack, and the Gaspee Raiders.
The Gaspee Attack.
Read here the fascinating story of the resourceful
Americans attacking the English navy ship Gaspee; the background,
the reasons for the Rhode Island attack, and the English reactions to
the attack, including the Royal Commission that alarmed the other
colonies. Browse pages of information investigating and
reporting the history, background, and events of the attack. This is the gateway to one of the two best places to find the
history and the current research on the events of the Gaspee attack.
The Gaspee Attack
The
Gaspee
Raiders .
Read here the list and biographical information of the men
(including Joseph Bucklin) who attacked the Gaspee. Read
who these men were, and the events in their lives
before and after the attack. Their names were idden by
an American conspiracy when the English sought to find and hang these
men as traitors. Their names were unknown for years. Now, original research by
the Joseph Bucklin Society and others of the Gaspee Scholars has
produced major additions to the list of men who gathered together, and
undertook
the first planned act of war in the American Revolution.
The Raiders List.
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The First Shot of the
Revolution! It was after midnight on June 10, 1772. There was no useful
moonlight and dark cloaked the Narragansett Bay, where the Gaspee, an English
Navy schooner, had run aground on Namquid Point. Yet there was enough light so that Joseph Bucklin could see the
Gaspee's commander on the starboard gunwale, swinging his sword and preventing
the American attackers from boarding the English schooner.
"Ephe," Bucklin
said to his friend Ephraim Bowen, "reach me your gun, and I can kill that
fellow.". . .Read the full story.
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The Rhode Island attack on the English Navy ship Gaspee
was a significant event in the history of the American Colonial Revolution
and the start of the American Revolutionary War, This national history
site for the Gaspee attack is part of the
Joseph Bucklin Society's research and educational efforts. The Joseph
Bucklin Society is dedicated both to researching and preserving the
history of the Massachusetts and Rhode Island colonists and the
descendants of William Bucklin, and also transmitting their example of
courage, vitality, faith, duty, and honor.
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Bucklin.
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