On Dec. 16, 1773, 241 years ago, angry Boston citizens boarded British ships and dumped 90,000 pounds of tea into Boston Harbor. The Boston Tea Party, as it came to be known, proved one of the ...

The anniversary of the Boston Tea Party, one of the most infamous protests leading up to the American Revolution, is days away. In December 1773, political activists known as the Sons of Liberty ...

Thorndike: OK, number one, the Boston Tea Party was not a protest against high taxes. It was definitely a tax protest, but it was sparked by a tax cut, not a tax hike. So by 1773, Americans had ...

The Boston Tea Party demonstrates ... Finally, on the night of December 16, 1773, a group of "Mohawks" tossed 340 chests of tea into Boston Harbor. "This Destruction of the Tea," wrote John ...

On Dec. 16, 1773, the Sons of Liberty dumped more than ... creative director at the Boston Tea Party Ships and Museum, which is hosting the Dec. 16 event. People from all over the world have ...

1773) include 3D holograms, talking portraits and the Robinson Tea Chest, an authentic tea chest from the Boston Tea Party. Two of the three ships have been recreated, the Beaver and the Eleanor ...

Trump’s tariffs target China, Canada, and Mexico, with broader global implications, especially for trade and national ...

River City Middle School eighth grader Hailey Jenny-Jeanne Farr is the winner of the Daughters of the American Revolution ...

including one before the Boston Tea Party — a 1773 taxation protest that saw chests of tea dumped in Boston’s harbor, triggering a series of events that would turbocharge American independence.

Courtesy: Library of Congress In 1773, when the colonists of Massachusetts staged the Boston Tea Party in Boston Harbor, Parliament, with the king's approval, hit the colony with the Coercive ...

In 1773 rebels unconvincingly disguised as Mohawk Indians boarded three docked ships in Boston Harbor and dumped ... repaid the damage caused by the Tea Party, installed a British general as ...