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...punish Boston for Tea Party, the port is to be closed until colonial authorities pay ? 18,000 for destroyed tea. Later measures include ban on any public meetings without Governor's approval and a requirement that British troops be housed in private dwellings wherever necessary. May 17. Rhode Island issues first call for a colonial Congress, soon echoed by Pennsylvania and New York. Sept 5. First Continental Congress meets in Philadelphia for nearly two months and issues a declaration of ten "rights," including "life, liberty and property," and "a right peaceably to assemble ... and petition the King...
...commander in chief reached the Army outside Boston on July 2, 1775. He found that it had fewer than 50 cannons, hardly any powder, few trained gunners or engineers, little pay and no order at all. The men had been recruited from the Connecticut. Rhode Island, Massachusetts and New Hampshire militia to meet the alarm sent out after Lexington and Concord. By tradition, they elected their own leaders, and many refused to serve with men from other parts of New England...
Until last year the youngest brigadier in the Continental Army was a forger of ship anchors in Coventry, Rhode Island. He has little formal education but used to study Euclid and military history beside his forge at night. Though raised a Quaker, Greene helped form a militia troop to resist British tyranny. When other members of his troop thought he should be disqualified from command because of a game leg, Greene characteristically offered to serve as a private. But his talent as a leader, especially in acquiring and organizing supplies, was quickly noticed. He progressed from private to general within...
...Connecticut and Rhode Island have followed the easiest course by simply turning their 17th century charters into state constitutions, declaring that their governments derive authority from the people rather than the King...
...totals 136 ships with 1,360 guns-far outnumbering the Navy's 31 vessels and 586 guns. Of the nearly 50 British ships captured since last November, the large majority have been seized by privateers. So privateering is becoming big business (it is estimated, for example, that Providence, Rhode Island, gained ?300,000 from privateering and shipbuilding in about twelve months, double the value of all its property in 1774), but it is not always very "jolly." Among the recent clashes...