HMS Gaspee ran aground while pursuing a colonial vessel

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The Gaspee Affair was a 1772 incident in Rhode Island in which American colonists attacked and burned the British customs schooner HMS Gaspee, escalating tensions that helped lead to the American Revolution.

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