RI historian pitches American Revolution rewrite

A Rhode Island historian, Bob Burke, challenges the accepted narrative, asserting the American Revolution began successful Rhode Island, not Massachusetts.

Rhode Island historiographer Bob Burke of Gaspee History Tours argues the American Revolution genuinely began successful Rhode Island, predating Massachusetts's accepted claims. Burke cites the 1772 Gaspee Affair successful Warwick, wherever patriots burned a British tax-collecting ship. He besides highlights Rhode Island's May 4, 1776 renunciation of ties with the crown, months earlier different colonies declared independence.