On June 10, 1772, the British scooner H.M.S. Gaspee had run aground at what is now known as Gaspee Point while chasing a smuggling vessel. John Brown and other American colonists who were fed up with the British Authority's overtaxation seized this opportunity. They loaded into boats and rowed out to capture the vessel, overpowering the ship and burning her to the waterline. This was the spark that ignited the American Revolution and led to our country's independence.
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