Posted on 12/16/2011 10:29:39 AM PST by Phlap
The Boston Tea Party was a direct action by colonists in Boston, a town in the British colony of Massachusetts, against the British government and the monopolistic East India Company that controlled all the tea coming into the colonies. On December 16, 1773, after officials in Boston refused to return three shiploads of taxed tea to Britain, a group of colonists boarded the ships and destroyed the tea by throwing it into Boston Harbor. The incident remains an iconic event of American history, and other political protests often refer to it.
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Thanks for posting that. I am currently reading ‘Paul Revere’s Ride’ by David Hackett Fischer. I highly recommend it!
What happened?
Harvard’s embrace of the Frankfurt School and Irish immigration.
The British history books always blame the Tea Party on drunk Freemasons.
A little google search indicates there is some truth to that:
http://freemasonry.bcy.ca/history/boston_tea_party.html
George Robert Twelves Hewes memorial ping
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