Episode 7 — The Gaspee Affair (June 1772) Rhode Island colonists led by Providence merchant John Brown row out to HMS Gaspee, a British revenue schooner run aground in Narragansett Bay, board her, wound the captain, and burn her to the waterline. The first organized attack on a British warship in the colonies. Britain's attempt to send the accused to England for trial backfires and directly sparks the creation of the Committees of Correspondence.

Episode 7 — The Gaspee Affair (June 1772) Rhode Island colonists led by Providence merchant John Brown row out to HMS Gaspee, a British revenue schooner run aground in Narragansett Bay, board her, wound the captain, and burn her to the waterline. The first organized attack on a British warship in the colonies. Britain's attempt to send the accused to England for trial backfires and directly sparks the creation of the Committees of Correspondence.

Episode 7 — The Gaspee Affair (June 1772) Rhode Island colonists led by Providence merchant John Brown row out to HMS&nbsp;Gaspee, a British revenue schooner run aground in Narragansett Bay, board her, wound the captain, and burn her to the waterline. The first organized attack on a British warship in the colonies. Britain's attempt to send the accused to England for trial backfires and directly sparks the creation of the Committees of Correspondence.

The Gaspee Affair

Footnotes of a Republic tells the small-print history of America's first century — the strange, dark, and humanizing stories that don't make it into the parade version. Each 20-minute episode is a self-contained deep dive into one overlooked event: prison ships, duels, lost conspiracies, frontier massacres, the backroom deals that shaped the Constitution, the sidebars that broke the union, and the people history forgot to mention.

Hosted by Wes Calloway.

A show for the historically curious — the people who finished the textbook and wanted the footnotes.

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Footnotes of a Republic tells the small-print history of America's first century — the strange, dark, and humanizing stories that don't make it into the parade version. Each 20-minute episode is a self-contained deep dive into one overlooked event: prison ships, duels, lost conspiracies, frontier massacres, the backroom deals that shaped the Constitution, the sidebars that broke the union, and the people history forgot to mention. Hosted by Wes Calloway. A show for the historically curious — the people who finished the textbook and wanted the footnotes.

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The Gaspee Affair

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