I remember seeing a small plaque in the meeting house, something to the effect, "through these doors the Patriots left for the Boston Tea Party". By the look of 'em, literally *those* doors.
Posted on 12/16/2025 9:46:08 AM PST by T.B. Yoits
The most famous ‘tea party’ ever took place on the evening of December 16, 1773, in Boston Harbor, Massachusetts.
The Sons of Liberty, led by Samuel Adams, writes The History Channel, rallied “against British Parliament and protested the Griffin’s Wharf arrival of Dartmouth, a British East India Company ship carrying tea. By December 16, 1773, Dartmouth had been joined by her sister ships, Beaver and Eleanor; all three ships loaded with tea from China.
That morning, as thousands of colonists convened at the wharf and its surrounding streets, a meeting was held at the Old South Meeting House where a large group of colonists voted to refuse to pay taxes on the tea or allow the tea to be unloaded, stored, sold or used. (Ironically, the ships were built in America and owned by Americans.)
Governor Thomas Hutchison refused to allow the ships to return to Britain and ordered the tea tariff be paid and the tea unloaded. The colonists refused, and Hutchison never offered a satisfactory compromise.
That night, a large group of men—many reportedly members of the Sons of Liberty— disguised themselves in Native American garb, boarded the docked ships and threw 342 chests of tea into the water.
The primary catalyst for the Boston Tea Party was the Tea Act of 1773, which granted the British East India Company a monopoly on tea sales in the American colonies. This act infuriated the colonists, as it not only reinforced the unpopular tax on tea but also threatened local merchants. In response, a group of colonists, disguised as Mohawk Indians to conceal their identities, boarded three British ships – the Dartmouth, the Eleanor, and the Beaver – and dumped 342 chests of tea into the harbor.
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I remember seeing a small plaque in the meeting house, something to the effect, "through these doors the Patriots left for the Boston Tea Party". By the look of 'em, literally *those* doors.
early satire via hi-larious cultural appropriation (indian garb)
Now we would dress up as Somalis to throw cases Pfizer and MurdeRNA products in the harbor.
On Beethoven’s birthday...but since he was only 3 years old he probably hadn’t written any music yet.
The Green Dragon Tavern had something to do with it!
In today’s “Peanuts” (on Arcamax). Schroeder says “Happy Beethoven’s Birthday” to Lucy, who had just finished a book she had written about Beethoven. She says she particularly liked the part when she tells how Beethoven played for Lincoln’s Inaugural Ball.
Yep.
Mabey time to bring back tar and feathering.
Tar and feather Lucy for her historical ignorance?
Ha
ooo goody when and where
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