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Revolutionaries, rebels, & rogues of Rhode Island
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- Creator
- M.E. Reilly-McGreen
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- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Charleston : History Press, 2011
- Physical Details
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- 125 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781609491390, 1609491394
- OCLC
- ocn727702433
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 121-125).
- Introduction: A series of fortunate events -- Revolutionaries -- Edward Everett Hale : Matunuck's mythmaker -- H.P. Lovecraft : tales of the outsider -- Oliver Hazard Perry : "We have met the enemy and they are ours" -- Samuel Slater : how one man's revolutionary is another's rogue -- Gilbert Stuart : it takes an egomaniac to paint a legend -- Cornelius Vanderbilt : "I got the power" -- Governor Isaac Wilbour and the wretch at the whipping post -- Rebels -- The death of Chief Canonchet, North America's most fearsome rebel warrior -- Rhode Island's recovery of the remains of Revolutionary War hero Major General Nathanael Greene -- Henry James : Newport's prodigal son -- The Morseites : God's chosen people or public nuisance? -- Cato Pearce : God's (and God's wife and daughter's) chosen one -- The murder of Danny Walsh : the luck of the Irish runs out -- The root that ate Roger Williams and other tales of our founding father -- Rogues -- James Gordon Bennett, Jr. : Newport's most notorious naked bad boy -- The short, sad tale of Aaron Church, would-be scourge of the seven seas -- Charles Harris : a true pirate gets his but good -- Captain William Kidd : come for his gold and he'll come for you -- The dark tale of wicked William Rose -- The South County slavers -- Swamp Yankee and proud of it -- Joshua Tefft : drawn and quartered in South County