Enlightenment · North America · Politics
1773
Boston Tea Party
December 16, 1773
Sons of Liberty, disguised as Mohawks with soot on their faces, boarded three tea ships at Griffin's Wharf and tipped 340 chests into the harbor - £9,659 worth of good Darjeeling. The organization was so thorough they swept the decks afterward. In London, George III concluded the colonies had to be punished.
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Enlightenment (1651–1800), one of 696 events from that era on Saeculum.
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