Aquidneck Island

Aquidneck Island has been mentioned more than a dozen times throughout the RSS channels we monitor. This location appears to be especially popular on the channel 'Online Review of Rhode Island History' where it has less than a dozen mentions. As seen in the chart below, Aquidneck Island had the highest popularity figure in November, 2016.

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Identifying the French Landing Site in Newport

[...] Park, in the area where the statue of General Rochambeau is located on the western side of Aquidneck Island (called Rhode Island in the eighteenth century). This seems to be the most logical [...]

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“I’m a Good Old Rebel:” Ocean State Confederates

[...] has yet to be made. Confederate prisoners were also housed at Portsmouth Grove Hospital on Aquidneck Island. Men who took the oath of allegiance to the United States were allowed to be released from [...]

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Rhode Island’s Founding Documents: The Rhode Island Patent of February 1643/44 and the Acts and Orders of 1647

[...] religious liberty to all. Because title to the entire island of Rhode Island (i.e., Aquidneck Island) was in his name, Coddington began to entertain thoughts of creating a domain of his own [...]

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A French Officer Seeks to Rebuild Aquidneck Island’s Revolutionary War Fortifications

[...] fortifications and buildings at Butts Hill (which they called Windmill Hill) after seizing Aquidneck Island in December of 1776 during the Revolutionary War. They continued to occupy the fort at Butts [...]

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Pookie the Dog: A Life of Leisure and Regality

[...] multimillion dollar estate known as Fairholme in Newport. It was here and at such estates on Aquidneck Island where the duke and duchess vacationed while taking in luncheons, teas, and dinners, and [...]

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Rhode Island’s Last Civil War Veteran: An Irishman

[...] . In the spring of 1865, at the age of 18 and living in Bristol (across Narragansett Bay from Aquidneck Island), Ray and a companion trekked to Providence to enlist in the 14th Regiment, Rhode Island [...]

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Top 20 Greatest Rhode Islanders of All Time: Counting Down from Number 5 to 1

[...] to the extent possible, which Greene did brilliantly. In August 1778 he served on Aquidneck Island, helping to repel a British attack. Greene was probably the best military strategist [...]

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The Culper Spy Ring Was Not The First To Warn The French at Newport

[...] forts abandoned by the British nine months earlier and building new ones at the south end of Aquidneck Island. On July 16 and 17 the approximately 1,500 sailors and 800 soldiers and marines sick with [...]

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Jemima Wilkinson: the First American-Born Woman to Found a Religious Movement

[...] women who refused to be confined within prescribed limits. In the seventeenth century on Aquidneck Island in Rhode Island, strong women who suffered for their religious beliefs included Anne [...]

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A Colonial Newport Tunnel Perfect for Smuggling?

[...] a smuggler’s route to the shoreline. Excerpt from Charles Blaskowitz’s 1777 map of Aquidneck Island (Library of Congress). Careful historians know that claims made in books written in [...]

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The Experience of New London Tories and Quakers

[...] by a large fleet, easily invaded and occupied Newport, Rhode Island, and the rest of Aquidneck Island. The first commander of the British garrison, Lieutenant General Earl Hugh Percy, [...]

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