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Hello and welcome to episode 373 of Ben Franklin's world.

The podcast dedicated to helping you learn more about how the people and events of our

early American past have shaped the present day world we live in.

And I'm your host, Liz Kovart.

The American Revolution comprised many memorable events.

The Stamp Act riots of 1765, the Tea Crisis of 1773, the coercive or intolerable

acts of 1774, the many battles of the War for independence and of course the Declaration of Independence.

But the so-called March to Revolution comprised many more events than just the Stamp-back

riots, the Boston Massacre, and the Tea Crisis.

One event that we often overlooked played an essential and direct role in the events needed

to draw the 13 British North American colonies together into a union of coordinated response, an event that

played a direct role in the formation of the Inter-colonial Committees of Correspondence and

the First Continental Congress.

That event was the Gasp Bay Affair of 1772.

Adrian Weimer, a professor of history at Providence College, has been researching the Gas

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