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Sixty Colonial patriots boarded three British ships in Boston Harbor
and dumped 342 chests of tea overboard. They were protesting the
British Tea Act of 1773, which effectively granted an illegal monopoly
to the East India Tea Company.
More about the Boston Tea Party:
http://www.northpark.edu/acad/history/WebChron/USA/TeaParty.html
(source: The Learning Kingdom) |