All posts tagged "Boston Tea Party"
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1.8KMassachusettsBostonians Practice Their Tea Party on Andrew Belcher
Sixty-three years before the Boston Tea Party, outraged men launched a nighttime attack on a ship belonging to Andrew Belcher in Boston...
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3.2KConnecticutThe Revolutionary Holidays You May or May Not Celebrate
Revolutionary holidays didn't start and end with Independence Day. When the Revolutionary War ended, Trumbull, Conn., celebrated with A Great Jubilee Day...
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3.1KMassachusettsJames Swan – The Man Who Financed Two Revolutions
In 1794, the Atlantic Ocean was a battleground. The French and British were at loggerheads, and the British Navy, with the support...
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1.7K2MassachusettsJohn Rowe Takes the Middle Path in the American Revolution
John Rowe was a prominent Boston merchant, socialite and politician at the time of the American Revolution. Born in England in 1715...
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2.3K1MassachusettsThe 18 Patriots Condemned to Death – Who Wouldn’t Die
On September 19, 1774, New England was in a state of alarm. British troops had, on September 1, seized a store of...
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1.8K1ConnecticutA Revolutionary Currency Crash – The Story of William Beadle
By the opening of the American Revolution, William Beadle was a successful merchant and patriot. He contributed to funds to aid the...
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1.4K2Business and LaborThe New England Town Crier, Part Ad Man, Part Comedian
Jimmy Wilson, Boston’s town crier for 50 years, was loved by the city’s children, and was once paid to go around to...
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8.3K2Today's History Highlights ArchiveSix Loyalist Houses
A Loyalist House was likely to be seized and sold when the American Revolution broke out. Many colonies passed laws that let...
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4.3K4MassachusettsJoseph Dyar Speaks Too Freely of the Boston Tea Party
After heaving 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbor on Dec. 16, 1773, the band of patriots who carried out the raid...
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2.4K2MassachusettsSeven Things You Didn’t Know (But Want To) About the Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party wasn’t about excessive taxation. It was about a corporate bailout that threatened small merchants in Boston. For years...