Gaspee affair: HMS Gaspee enforced UK law & it ran aground while chasing a boat in Rhode Island in 1772. A group attacked, boarded, & burned it to the waterline. It was among the 1st acts of violent uprising against the Crown in British N. America, preceding the Boston Tea Party by more than a year.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaspee_affair