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John Manley’s Bad Day in Newport in December 1776

Most of this article is an inventory of the items that Newport merchant John Manley owned at the end of 1776 at his modest home in Newport on Touro Street, facing what is now Washington Square Park. John wrote the detailed inventory because he was attempting to be financially reimbursed by the state of Rhode Island for his losses suffered during the British occupation of Newp...


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The Ku Klux Klan Attempts To Take Over Rhode Island Militia

Rhode Island’s First Light Infantry (called the FLI for short) was disintegrating fast. It was 1927, more than a century after its 1818 founding, and it was able to count less than 25 members. It seemed certain that the Infantry would become merely a part of history—until boys and men suddenly began coming to enlist in hordes. Hundreds of interested individuals, both young an...


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Riding the Rails
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Teaching The American Revolution Using Ken Burns’s Documentary—Episodes 4, 5, and 6

In early 1778, from the headquarters of the Continental Army in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, General George Washington’s aide-de-camp, John Laurens, wrote several letters to his father Henry who had recently succeeded John Hancock as the president of the Continental Congress. While most of the Continental Army was suffering through a harsh winter in makeshift huts, the British...


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What Colonel Christopher Greene Owned (and Did not Own) in 1779 and 1781

Christopher Greene was one of Rhode Island’s greatest heroes of the Revolutionary War, but his life was tragically cut short.  He was appointed a lieutenant in the Kentish Guards, an independent company formed in East Greenwich in September 1774.  He became a captain and commanded one of two divisions under Colonel Benedict Arnold in the legendary Expedition to Queb...


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