Paul Revere embarked upon his famous midnight ride on April 18, 1775, dashing from Boston toward Lexington and Concord to ...

This riled colonists but the king wasn't done ... Just like that, 92,000 pounds of tea went overboard and the Boston Tea Party became legend. King George III was livid. In the spring of 1774 ...

The Boston Tea Party Ships & Museum offers an immersive experience that takes you back to December 16, 1773, the day when American colonists protested against British taxation by dumping 342 ...

The Boston Tea Party demonstrates ... ignited by the passage of the Townshend duties in 1767. The colonists resisted these duties so effectively that parliament soon had to repeal them, but ...

When British troops went to seize arms stockpiled by American colonists at Concord, Massachusetts, they could have had little ...

That whole thing about "no taxation without representation"? Those taxes were mostly import duties on goods imported from Britain.

On Dec. 16, 1773, American colonists, angry at Britain for imposing “taxation without representation,” dumped 342 chests of tea, imported by the British East India Co., into the Boston harbor.

Our Declaration of Independence was written in response to the many impositions of an abusive English king. The resistance did not originate at that time but began 560 years before. The Magna Carta ...

Although he had not liked his fellow colonists' destructive response to the Stamp Act eight years earlier, John Adams applauded the Boston Tea Party. He wrote in his Diary, "There is a Dignity ...

December 16: In the event known as the Boston Tea Party, colonists disguised as Indians dump imported tea into Boston Harbor to protest taxes on the product. Suspected participants include Samuel ...

In March 1774, British Parliament punished the Massachusetts colony for the Boston Tea Party with the Coercive ... would determine a price—and colonists then, in turn, had to purchase goods ...