Boston Tea Party

Name: Boston Tea Party
Start: 1773
Location: Boston

1773 · Boston · Americas · Politics

Colonists dump 342 chests of tea into the harbour

On 16 December 1773 Boston's Sons of Liberty, some disguised as Mohawks, threw the East India Company's tea into the harbour in protest at taxes imposed without the colonists' consent. London answered by closing the port with the Intolerable Acts, and sixteen months later the War of Independence began.

State: British Colonial Empire, British Empire

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