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The Delaware Regiment of the Continental Army at the Battle of Long Island during the American Revolutionary War. Painting by Domenick D'Andrea, commissioned by the US National Guard Bureau, c. 2004.

Ahu Tongariki on Easter Island. These moai were restored in the 1990s CE by a Japanese research team after a cyclone knocked them over in the 1960s CE.

Lord Stirling leads an attack against the British (in the background) to buy time for other American troops to retreat (as depicted in the foreground) at the Battle of Long Island (27 August 1776), which resulted in a defeat for the Continental...

A cropped image of a Black infantryman from the 1st Rhode Island Regiment during the American Revolutionary War (1775-1783); the full watercolor shows American troops at the Siege of Yorktown, 1781. By Jean Baptiste Antoine de Verger, 1781...

This Moai comes originally from Easter Island and dates from c. 13th-14th century CE. (Musée du Cinquantenaire, Brussels)

Regimental Flag of the 1st Rhode Island Regiment, c. 1781.

A marker at the site of the Battle of Rhode Island (29 August 1778) detailing the order of events. Photo by JBowie17, 18 March 2014.

The Siege of Newport prior to the Battle of Rhode Island (29 August 1778). Illustration from The Gentleman's magazine, ed. by Sylvanus Urban, London, February 1779, p. 100-101. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

The buccaneers who roamed the Spanish Main and the pirates who plundered the Caribbean and the Indian Ocean during the Golden Age of Piracy (1690-1730) needed a place of refuge where they could share out and enjoy their loot. Pirate havens...

The Gaspee Affair was an incident that occurred on 10 June 1772, when a group of American colonists from Rhode Island seized and burned the Royal Navy schooner HMS Gaspee after it had run aground. The affair contributed to the worsening of...