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      • Butts Hill Fort: A History
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      • Interactive Timeline
      • Americans Gather at Tiverton
      • Battle of Rhode Island
      • Butts Hill Fort Plans
      • Revolutionary Rhode Island Intro
      • The Rhode Island Campaign
    • Revolutionary Rhode Island
      • Introduction
      • Maritime Skirmishes in Narragansett Bay, 1763-1769
      • Protest Events
      • Rochambeau Statue – Newport Harbor
      • The Gaspee
      • Militia Fortifications on Rhode Island
    • British Occupation
      • British Occupation: Introduction
      • The Mackenzie Diaries
      • Portsmouth
      • Newport
      • Occupation of Middletown: Patriot Raid Captures British General Prescott
    • The Rhode Island Campaign
      • Introduction
      • Americans Gather at Tiverton
      • Emergence of The French Alliance: The Beginning and Final Phases
    • The Battle of Rhode Island
      • Skirmish Timelines and Map
      • Skirmish at West Main Road and Union Street
      • Skirmish at East Main Road and Union Street
      • Turkey Hill
      • Quaker Hill
      • Lehigh Hill
      • British Naval Actions
        • The Gaspee Affair: A Rhode Island Perspective on Its 250th Anniversary
        • The Conspiracy to Destroy the Gaspee
      • Patriot’s Retreat to Tiverton
      • Significant People
      • Eyewitness Accounts
      • The Aftermath of the Battle
    • The French Arrival and Departure
      • An Introduction
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      • Departure
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Who Carried the British Grenadier Sergeant’s Carbine in the Varnum Armory Collection?

In a rack atop the 19th-century glass-front bookcase in the Varnum Commander’s Office is a rare English Carbine, a scaled-down version of the British Land Pattern Musket, commonly known as the “Brown Bess”.

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