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    The 1st Rhode Island Regiment (also known as Varnum's Regiment, the 9th Continental Regiment, the Black Regiment, the Rhode Island Regiment, and Olney's...
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    The Monument to the 1st Rhode Island Regiment at Yorktown Heights, New York was erected on May 13, 1982, on the grounds of the First Presbyterian Church...
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    before joint operations were to begin. The battle was also notable for the participation of the 1st Rhode Island Regiment under the command of Colonel...
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    The 2nd Rhode Island Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment composed of volunteers from the state of Rhode Island that served with the Union Army...
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    town on the southwestern coastline of Washington County, Rhode Island, United States, first settled by English colonists in 1661, and incorporated as...
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  • marked by a large monument. Near the monument, a second stone marker and plaque known as the Monument to the First Rhode Island Regiment honors the memory...
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    Great Swamp Fight (category Battles in Rhode Island)
    fought near the villages of Kingston and West Kingston in the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. The combined force of the New England militia...
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    Continental Army. The 1st Rhode Island Regiment, also known as "Varnum's Continentals", was a Continental Army regiment from Rhode Island. It became well known...
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    Christopher Greene (category Continental Army officers from Rhode Island)
    American 1st Rhode Island Regiment during the American Revolutionary War, most notably with distinction in the 1778 Battle of Rhode Island. He was killed...
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    Ether Monument, Boston Public Garden, Boston, Massachusetts 1868 "Matthew Perry Monument", Touro Park, Newport, Rhode Island 1869 "Seventh Regiment Memorial"...
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    Ambrose Burnside (category 19th-century Rhode Island politicians)
    War, Burnside was a colonel in the Rhode Island Militia. He raised the 1st Rhode Island Volunteer Infantry Regiment, and was appointed its colonel on May...
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    Fort Adams (category State parks of Rhode Island)
    former United States Army post in Newport, Rhode Island, that was established on July 4, 1799, as a First System coastal fortification, named for President...
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  • 1st Rhode Island Light Artillery Regiment was an artillery battery that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. Battery A, 1st Rhode Island...
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    1st Rhode Island Light Artillery Regiment was an artillery battery that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. Battery B, 1st Rhode Island...
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    Equestrian statue of Ambrose Burnside (category Union (American Civil War) monuments and memorials in Rhode Island)
    Burnside, also known as the Ambrose Burnside Monument, is a monumental equestrian statue in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. The statue, located in...
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    the first group of volunteer regiments departed Massachusetts for Washington. This enthusiasm was quickly dampened and the offices closed due to the fact...
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    (169.046 m) tall Washington Monument, the tallest stone monument in the world. Visitors can take an elevator to the monument's observation deck for a view...
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  • July 2023. Woonsocket, Rhode Island. Rhode Island Historical Preservation Commission. 1976. p. 60. Watson, Inez (1958). Monuments on the State House Grounds...
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  • html Monument and Memorial Ossuary to the Defenders of Belgrade List of war cemeteries and memorials on the Gallipoli Peninsula 57th Infantry Regiment Memorial...
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  • Henson Residence, Manhattan Minton's Playhouse, Manhattan Monument to First Rhode Island Regiment, Yorktown Heights Newburgh Colored Burial Ground, Newburgh...
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    from this source, which is in the public domain. "Monument to the 1st Vermont Volunteer Cavalry Regiment at Gettysburg". The Battle of Gettysburg. January...
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  • Providence, Rhode Island, 1887 Soldiers and Sailors Monument (Providence), Rhode Island, 1871 Woonsocket Civil War Monument, Woonsocket, Rhode Island, 1868...
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    anxiety to the members of the regiment, telling them, "I don't believe there is any North. The Seventh Regiment [New York] is a myth. Rhode Island is not...
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    in Long Island, Tuxedo Park, New York, and Newport, Rhode Island. Their armory building for the 69th Regiment, New York, was the first armory to abandon...
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    Francis Smith (British Army officer) (category Royal Lincolnshire Regiment officers)
    of Long Island. In August 1778, he led the brigade at Quaker Hill in Newport, Rhode Island during the Battle of Rhode Island. The 10th Regiment served...
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  • Joseph Stanton Jr. (category Rhode Island militiamen in the American Revolution)
    the 1st Kings County Regiment of the Rhode Island Militia in July 1776. He then served as the colonel of a regiment of state troops, raised for 15 months...
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    Nathanael Greene (category Continental Army officers from Rhode Island)
    into a prosperous Quaker family in Warwick, Rhode Island, Greene became active in the colonial opposition to British revenue policies in the early 1770s...
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    fire to the bridge. Captain Hoyt took his men to the far side, while Captain Brayton, of the 3rd Rhode Island, proceeded up the left riverbank to the Middleton...
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    statue of Rochambeau to Newport, Rhode Island. The sculpture is a replica of a statue in Paris. There is a Rochambeau monument at French Hill in Marion...
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    Isaac P. Rodman (category People from South Kingstown, Rhode Island)
    religion and his loyalty to the Union, but unhesitatingly raised a group of local residents for the 2nd Rhode Island Infantry Regiment and was given the rank...
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