About fifty members of the Sons of Liberty, some disguised as Mohawk Indians, boarded a British vessel in Boston on December 16, 1773. They then emptied 342 tea chests into the harbor as a protest against the Tea Act. Word about their protest against the English tax soon spread and it proved to be a key event in the
U.S. War of Independence.
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1846 lithograph by Nathaniel Currier "The Destruction of Tea at Boston Harbor" |
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