Abraham Whipple and John Brown, both of Warwick, Rhode Island, lead a boarding party onto HMS Gaspee, where they loot and torch the armed revenue schooner after it had run aground.
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Authority:
Magna Carta, Chapter 61
ccc-2point0.com/magna-carta-excerpts
References:
Winston Churchill, A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, four volumes. (London: Cassell, 1956-58), 3:177.
Gaspee affair – Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaspee_affair#The_incident
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