Happy 240th Anniversary -- Boston Tea Party
 

This Day in Boston History: Happy 240th Anniversary, Boston Tea Party

Published: December 16th 2013, 11:47am
Boston Tea Party, This Day in Boston History
BostonInno
Nick Deluca

240 years ago to the day, a group of disgruntled Bostonians boldly destroyed an entire supply of British tea by dumping it into Boston Harbor in what has become one of the most historically significant nonviolent protests in the history of our nation. The Boston Tea Party, as it has since come to be colloquially referred, was the catalyst for sparking the birth of the United States, the resounding sentiment of "no taxation without representation" in the colonies and that of treachery and treason in Great Britain.

The idea of the Boston Tea Party remains soundly situated in American lore, a symbol of patriotism and defiance to tyranny, and lives on today as the namesake of the far-right faction of the Republican Party. But to help celebrate this American milestone and subsequent country the momentous event helped to conceive, here are five fun facts you might not know about the Boston Tea Party.

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"Many years later Sir Winston Churchill - Prime Minister and Historian - commented on the act of Parliament that had given the East India Company a monopoly on tea. Mr. Churchill called it "a stupid blunder."

Americans have been drinking coffee ever since. The English said that the reason the Americans lost their taste for tea was that they had a peculiar way of mixing it in the salt water.

It started in the Green Dragon Tavern. If a man ordered tea, he was a Tory. If he ordered coffee, he was a Patriot."

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