Caching Across America - Rhode Island Mystery Cache

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Hidden : 1/26/2006
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size: regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:

The above coordinates are for parking! The cache is in the Buck Hill Management Area. There is a parking area at the end of a dirt road off of Buck Hill Road (N° 41 59.117, W° 071 47.351) . From the second Saturday in October through the last day in February, one is required to have 200 square inches of solid day-glo fluorescent orange as a hat or vest.

This cache is one in a series we are placing in each state with a patriotic theme. To make sure that it is well kept, JoshBro has graciously agreed to maintain it.
In keeping with the patriotic theme, answer these questions from Rhode Island’s history: (fill in A,B,C,D,E,F to find the cache location)

N 41° 59.ABC W 071° 47.DEF

A = When Rhode Island joined the new federal union, it was the 1“A”th state to do so.

B= The orginal Rhode Island State Flag was established in 187“B”. It was modified and became the New State Flag in 189“B”.

C= Rhode Island native Oliver Hazard Perry is known as the Hero of the Battle of Lake Erie. Commodore Perry not only won the first United States Navy fleet action, but, with the victory at Lake Erie, he defeated and captured an entire British squadron for the first time in British history. Perry penned the famous words, 'We have met the enemy and they are ours..." in his report to General William Henry Harrison. He was born on August 23, 178“C”.

D= STEPHEN HOPKINS was appointed a justice of the peace, and a justice of one of the courts of common pleas. In 1733, he became Chief Justice of that court. His brother was Commodore Esek Hopkins, who became the first Commander-in-Chief of the United States Navy. In 1756, Hopkins was elected governor of the colony and he held that office, with the exception of one year, until 1764. In 1772, Hopkins was again elected to the general assembly. He sponsored a bill that prohibited the importation of slaves into the colony. He was elected with Samuel Ward to represent Rhode Island in the continental congress in August 1774. In the year 1775 and 1776, he again represented Rhode Island in the continental congress. In this latter year be had the honor of signing his name to the Declaration of Independence. He freed his slaves in 177“D”.

E= The Battle of Rhode Island was fought in the bunkers and garrisons surrounding Newport, Rhode Island. In this action, the Americans had the advantage of having the French fleet as an ally under the direction of Count d’Estaing. The French had decided to enter the War for Independence on the side of the American colonists when General Burgoyne’s forces at Saratoga fell to the Americans in October 1777. At the Battle of Rhode Island, British forces were led by Sir Henry Clinton and by Major Howe at sea. The American forces were led by General Sullivan and General Nathaniel Greene. The French created a controversy in the days leading up the battle by abandoning the American forces after initialing chasing the British fleet out of the harbor surrounding Newport, having suffered great damages in need of repair in Boston. Although Sullivan later protested this monstrous betrayal on the part of his new French ally, Congress later commended the French for their valiant efforts in Rhode Island as they did not want to anger and lose such an important ally. On the day of the battle, three major assaults were initiated by the British, but the day ended in a stalemate. But without French assistance in the harbor, the Americans had to make a clever and daring escape from the bunkers and garrisons surrounding Newport so as to avoid almost certain capture by British forces who were being reinforced by Sir Henry Clinton. Instead of falling into the hands of the British forces, the American colonists managed to safely escape back to their farms and homes. General Lafayette who, along with the French fleet, played a role in this battle later called it the most successful action of the war so skilled was the escape from almost certain British entrapment. Although a defeat for the American forces, the groundwork laid by Sullivan and d’Estaing would later lead to the British evacuation of Rhode Island in October 1779 when the power and the authority of the Rhode Islanders would become unquestioned. The number corresponding to the month the battle took place is “E”.

F= Middletown, Rhode Island is home to the Middletown Armory, home of the Company A, 2nd Battalion, 1“X” th Special Forces. Group (Airborne) of the Army National Guard. If you click on this link, you can hear The Ballad of the Green Berets. F= “X”-2 , so if the unit was the 15th, you would take "5" as “X” and subtract 2, leaving F = 3 as an example.

The container is a ½ gallon camouflaged plastic jug with a screw lid.

FTF Honors go to both ~Marvalus and BlackstoneVal. Congrats!

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Guvf fubhyq znxr lbh srry obhyqre.

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)


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