by Kate Dolan | Oct 19, 2017 | Articles, Colonial America, Kate Dolan, Latest Posts, Living History
Anyone who has studied American history knows about the Boston Tea Party. When a group of angry colonists protested British taxation by dumping chests of tea that belonged to the British East India Company, the British responded by closing the port and taking over the...
by Kate Dolan | Apr 19, 2012 | Articles, Colonial America, Latest Posts, Living History
On this day in 1774, men led by members of the colonial rebel group the Sons of Liberty boarded a ship at anchor, tore apart chests of tea and dumped them overboard. This was not the Boston Tea Party – it was The New York Tea party—one of several that most people have...
