Boston dumped all that tea in the harbor, huh? That’s cute…😅
John M Davis
We didn't start the fire... Or did we? Nearly 18 months before the Boston Tea Party, a group of Rhode Islanders rowed out from Pawtuxet Village, boarded the British revenue schooner HMS Gaspee and left it burning in Narragansett Bay.
A daring nighttime raid in Narragansett Bay came before the Boston Tea Party and helped push the colonies toward a united response to Britain