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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 sent tea ...

16, 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 ...

Snaking through the American city of Boston, the Freedom Trail isn’t long, but links so many must-see locations where modern ...

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.

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 ...