On the evening of December 16, 1773, 250 years ago today, New England colonists disguised as Native Americans calmly boarded three ships in Boston Harbor and dumped 90,000 pounds of tea overboard. By ...

The Boston Tea Party, a euphemistic name for a dangerous escalation of hostilities between colonists and the crown, erupted on the Massachusetts coast on this day in history, Dec. 16, 1773. "The die ...

On December 16, 1773, a group of Massachusetts colonists disguised as members of the Mohawk tribe boarded three British tea ships in Boston Harbor. They dumped 342 chests of tea -- valued at $18,000 - ...

On December 16, 1773, American colonists stormed three British ships and hurled 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbor. This explosive act of rebellion against unfair taxes shook the empire, ignited ...

Few people would have guessed that throwing crates of tea off a ship would lead to one of the biggest revolutions in history. Yet, on this day in 1773 a group calling itself the Sons of Liberty ...

Wolters Kluwer Tax & Accounting explores the taxing of tea before the American Revolution and how tea is taxed in the U.S. today --(BUSINESS WIRE)--Wolters Kluwer Tax & Accounting: What: Many ...

Visitors to the Boston Tea Party Museum throw replicas of historic tea containers into Boston Harbor from aboard a replica of the vessel Beaver. AP The Boston Tea Party Museum has been encouraging ...

Americans are venting their frustrations with the current political climate by chucking tea into Boston Harbor. Sound familiar? The Boston Tea Party Museum has been encouraging Americans to send them ...

-that’s understood to be a patriotic rallying cry of the people who became the founders of the United States of America. Early Americans, so the story goes, protested taxes by the British as part of ...

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