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New effort underway to find the HMS Gaspee, a British ship torched by Rhode Island colonists in 1772
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A new effort is underway to find the remains of a British ship that Rhode Island colonists burned 250 years ago, marine archaeologists and state officials announced Tuesday.
The June 10, 1772, burning of the HMS Gaspee was an act of rebellion that some proud Rhode Islanders maintain was just as important in sparking the American Revolution as the Boston Tea Party more than a year later.
Yet schoolchildren rarely learn of it in history class.
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