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dec 16, 1773 - Boston Tea party

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raid on three British ships in Boston Harbor in which Boston colonists, disguised as Indians, threw the contents of several hundred chests of tea into the harbor as a protest against British taxes on tea and against the monopoly granted the East India Company.

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dec 16, 1773
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~ 252 years ago

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