15 June

The Rhode Island General Assembly appointed Abraham Whipple commodore of two ships fitted out for the defense of the colony's trade.

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The USRC Ingham, under Captain Ezekiel Jones, was dispatched to the Texas coast to monitor Mexican seizures of Texan-owned and American-owned and flagged vessels and on 15 June 1835, near Brazos Santiago, the Mexican schooner Montezuma fired on Ingham and the fire was returned.

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