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The 250th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party was already on the boil, with all sorts of commemorative programs on Cape and a splashy reenactment slated for Dec. 16 at the Boston Tea Party Ships ...
The Intolerable Acts, sometimes referred to as the Insufferable Acts or Coercive Acts, were a series of five punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party. The laws aimed to punish Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in the Tea Party protest of the Tea Act, a tax measure enacted by Parliament in May 1773.
Shoemaker. [ 1 ] George Robert Twelves Hewes (August 25, 1742 – November 5, 1840) [ 2 ] was a participant in the political protests in Boston at the onset of the American Revolution, and one of the last survivors of the Boston Tea Party and the Boston Massacre. Later he fought in the American Revolutionary War as a militiaman and privateer.
Old South Meeting House. The Old South Meeting House is a historic Congregational church building located at the corner of Milk and Washington Streets in the Downtown Crossing area of Boston, Massachusetts, built in 1729. It gained fame as the organizing point for the Boston Tea Party on December 16, 1773. Five thousand or more colonists [2 ...
Dunbar House Tea Room, shown here in 2021, will host a celebration of the 250th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party on Dec. 16. Tickets are $45 per person and reservations can be made online at ...
John Malcolm (Loyalist) The Bostonians Paying the Excise-Man, or, Tarring & Feathering, a 1774 British print, attributed to Philip Dawe, [1] combines assault on Malcolm with earlier Boston Tea Party in background. John Malcolm (May 20, 1723 - November 23, 1788), sometimes spelled Malcom or Malcomb, was a British sea captain, army officer, and ...
On Sept. 27, the very day the ships laden with tea set sail from England for Boston in 1773, the East India Company — which still exists — held a press conference in London marking the 250th ...
Peggy Stewart (ship) Peggy Stewart was a Maryland cargo vessel burned on October 19, 1774, in Annapolis as a punishment for contravening the boycott on tea imports which had been imposed in retaliation for the British occupation of Boston following the Boston Tea Party. This event became known as the "Annapolis Tea Party".