Y/M/D | Description | Place |
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1778/08/29 | French and American forces battle the British Army in the town of Portsmouth on Aquidneck Island. The 1st Rhode Island Regiment, made of companies of locally recruited African Americans and Native Americans with white officers, fight for the Americans. | Battle of Rhode Island Site, Portsmouth, RI |
1778/08/29 | The Battle of Quaker Hill occurs in the immediate vicinity of the Portsmouth Friends Meetinghouse. Cannonballs will be discovered during the excavating the cellar in 1955. | Portsmouth Friends Meetinghouse Parsonage and Cemetery, Portsmouth, RI |
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Military Event: | American Revolutionary War |
Motif: | War |
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