Our First Insurrection? The Boston Tea Party Our First Insurrection? The Boston Tea Party Authored by Richard Samuelson via RealClear Wire, On the evening of December 16, 1773, 250 years ago today, New England colonists disguised as Native Americans calmly boarded three ships in Boston Harbor and dumped 90,000 pounds of tea overboard. By 1773, …
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