- By the time of the Boston Tea Party, it has been estimated American colonists drank approximately 1.2 million pounds of tea each year.
- 1773 - Setting the Stage for the Boston Tea Party. British tea sales in the Colonies have dropped 70% since passage of the Townshend Acts in 1770.
- “The Boston Tea Party – Destruction of the tea in Boston Harbor.” Illustration published in A Child’s History of the United States circa 1872.
- The Boston Tea Party was a political protest that took place on the night of December 16, 1773, at Griffin’s Wharf in Boston, Massachusetts.
- The Boston Tea Party took place on the night of December 16, 1773, a few years before the start of the American Revolution in 1775.
- If fact even after the unfortunate fire at the Boston Tea Party ship museum there are still several such landmarks that will impress even a serous history buff.
- On the night of 16 December 1773, 340 chests of tea were destroyed in Boston Harbour, an event that has gone down in history as the Boston Tea Party.
- The Boston Tea Party, as it came to be known, was not the last occasion of colonial resistance surrounding tea either, though it was certainly the most notable.
- 16 December 2023 marks 250 years since the Boston Tea Party. Once dubbed the “most magnificent movement of all” by John Adams, the Boston Tea Party...
- People all over the world still commemorate the importance of the Boston Tea Party of 1773 to the stirring of the American Revolution.