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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMWED_portuguese-navigators-monument_Newport-RI.html
"This monument is a gift to the people of the United States of America, from the Rhode Island General Assembly in conjunction with the National Committee of the Commemorations of the Discoveries of Portugal and commissioned under the auspices of …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMWEA_john-adams_Newport-RI.html
Second Presidentof theUnited States inwhose honor thisFort was named.July 4th, 1799
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMWE3_fort-barton_Tiverton-RI.html
The earthen mounds on this site are the original fortifications that defended Tiverton against British forces that occupied Aquidneck Island. With hand tools & human toil colonists dug the breastworks then pulled artillery pieces up the hill to th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMWDV_butts-hill-fort_Portsmouth-RI.html
These fortifications erected by the British 1777 were occupied by the Americans 1778, becoming the island base of the Continental Army under General Sullivan in the Battle of Rhode Island.They are now consecrated to the immortal memory of those br…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMWDO_green-end-fort_Middletown-RI.html
Built 1777bythe Englishforthe defenceof Newport
The gift of—————W. W. ShermanJ. N. BrownH. BrownF. S. BarkerS. P. Barker
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMWDM_prescotts-headquarters_Middletown-RI.html
In this housethe British General Prescottwas taken prisoneron the night of July 9, 1777by Lieutenant-Colonel Bartonof the Rhode Island Line.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMWDH_rochambeau_Newport-RI.html
[ Left Marker : ]On June eighteenth, 1781, General Rochambeau left Newport with his army to join the American forces on the Hudson, and on August nineteenth, 1781, the combined armies under command of General Washington began their victorious marc…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJTT_portsmouth-compact_Portsmouth-RI.html
Erected to honor the memory and perpetuate the spirit and ideals ofthe founders of the first government in the world to allow and to insure toits citizens civil and religious liberty.Established on this Site in the Year 1638Portsmouth CompactWe wh…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5AF_the-black-regiment_Portsmouth-RI.html
Bloody Run Brook, First Black Militia,R. Island Regt.August 29, 1778.
In honor ofthe first Black slavesand freemen who fought inthe Battle of Rhode Islandas members of theFirst Rhode Island RegimentThe Black Regiment