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  • Thumbnail for Battle of Rhode Island
    The Battle of Rhode Island (also known as the Battle of Quaker Hill) took place on August 29, 1778. Continental Army and Militia forces under the command...
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    New Hampshire, and Rhode Island were essential. Those Men, posted on the Frontier, are not the Militia, but what we call our Provincial Troops, being regularly...
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    Companies, Rhode Island Provincial Forces (about 250 x men), commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Cole 3 x Companies, New York Provincial Forces (about 200...
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    The Rhode Island Line was a formation within the Continental Army. The term "Rhode Island Line" referred to the quota of numbered infantry regiments assigned...
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  • Rhode Island, a village and historic district in Providence County, Rhode Island Lonsdale Sports Arena, a race track that operated in Rhode Island from...
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    Nathanael Greene (category Continental Army officers from Rhode Island)
    colonial forces were laying siege to a British garrison. He missed the June 1775 Battle of Bunker Hill because he was visiting Rhode Island at the time...
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    further afield, including companies from New Hampshire, Connecticut, and Rhode Island. Under the command of Artemas Ward, they surrounded the city, blocking...
    25 KB (2,638 words) - 22:30, 31 July 2024
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    New Jersey Volunteers (Skinner's Greens) Newport Artillery Company (Rhode Island) 1741 New York Volunteers (placed on American establishment, as 3rd American...
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  • University is a private Ivy League research university in Providence, Rhode Island. It is the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the United...
    187 KB (16,661 words) - 11:41, 5 August 2024
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    to provide provincial policing in the late 1920s as provincial police forces were disbanded and their duties contracted out to provincial divisions of...
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    Lord Howe, the Commander of the British forces in North America, ordered the occupation of Newport on Rhode Island to secure a seaport; after the loss of...
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    established boundaries with New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Connecticut, but these underwent changes during the provincial period. The boundary with New Hampshire...
    43 KB (5,119 words) - 04:41, 6 July 2024
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    military would make another attempt to seize colonial stores. Patriots in Rhode Island moved munitions from the fort at Newport inland for safekeeping without...
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    Esek Hopkins (category People from Scituate, Rhode Island)
    general to command all military forces of Rhode Island on October 4, 1775. He immediately began to strengthen Rhode Island's defenses with the help of his...
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  • State Militia. In Rhode Island, the Governor holds two different military titles. According to Article IX, section 3 of the Rhode Island Constitution, the...
    26 KB (3,401 words) - 04:44, 28 April 2024
  • again as part of Gen. John Sullivan's army at the unsuccessful Battle of Rhode Island in 1778. Willey, George Franklyn, ed. (1903). State Builders: An Illustrated...
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    secondary theater until the Battle of Rhode Island in 1778. Rhode Island Garrison Regiments Two regiments of Rhode Island state troops served with the Continental...
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    Plantation, Rhode Island, Warwick, and Connecticut were charter colonies. The Massachusetts charter was revoked in 1684 and was replaced by a provincial charter...
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    first Europeans to circumnavigate Vancouver Island. On April 8, 1806, Captain John D'Wolf of Bristol, Rhode Island, sailed the Juno to Nahwitti (Newettee)...
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  • Thumbnail for List of military leaders in the American Revolutionary War
    American coast, he failed to support the land forces in the Battle of Rhode Island, and led French forces in the failed Siege of Savannah. He was also...
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