After years of oppressive British policies which stifled commerce in Narragansett Bay and surrounding communities, the Colony of R.I. and Providence Plantations renounced allegiance to the Crown on ...

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It was an invasion the Islanders, whose lives up until this point had been peaceful, never thought they would see, as explained by one resident, Rodney Lee ... patrol vessel HMS Endurance when ...