The Burning of the Gaspee: An America's Silent Stories Novel (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798243531405)

Burning of the Gaspee
Witness to the Founding Series - Book One
Long before Lexington.
Before Concord.
Before a declaration was signed-

Someone struck first.

In June of 1772, a British customs schooner ran aground off the coast of Rhode Island. By morning, she would be ash and wreckage. Her name was Gaspee-and her destruction would ignite something far greater than fire.

The Burning of the Gaspee tells the true, largely forgotten story of the first organized act of violent resistance against British authority in the American colonies. Through the eyes of ordinary men-sailors, apprentices, pilots, merchants, and townspeople-the novel brings to life a night of quiet planning, whispered oaths, and irreversible choice.

What followed was unprecedented:
- A royal commission with sweeping powers
- Threats of secret trials in England
- The first united colonial resistance to imperial justice
- A warning shot across the Atlantic that rebellion was no longer theoretical

This is not the familiar Revolution of speeches and signatures.
This is the Revolution before it had a name-
when men acted without knowing whether history would remember them as patriots or criminals.

Meticulously researched and richly imagined, The Burning of the Gaspee blends documented events with vivid storytelling to reveal how a single act of defiance reshaped colonial unity, British policy, and the road to independence.

If you enjoy historical fiction grounded in real events-stories of courage, consequence, and the moment when ordinary lives collide with history-this novel will stay with you long after the embers cool.