All posts tagged "Boston Tea Party"
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9.0KCrime and ScandalBoston Riots Once Every 3 Years — for Centuries
Boston riots during the 18th century happened so often you could have called the town Riot City. Between 1700 and 1764, 28...
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8.9KArts and LeisureHow John Singleton Copley Painted John Adams’ World
John Singleton Copley painted exquisite portraits of individual New Englanders before the American Revolution. Put his pre-revolutionary paintings together (or visit the...
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10.3KPolitics and MilitaryThe Providence Tea Party: On Dry Land, in Daylight and Thrown By Women
Rhode Island patriots had no more love for tea than did their allies in Boston, and on March 2, 1775, they threw...
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8.7KMassachusettsBostonians 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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13.5K4ConnecticutThe 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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10.9KMassachusettsJames Swan, The Man Who Financed Two Revolutions
In 1794, the Atlantic Ocean was a battleground, with the French and British at loggerheads. The British Navy, with the support of...
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