Boston Tea Party
Channel: History Future Clips
Date: 16/12/2023

7 Surprising Facts About The Boston Tea Party 


- On December 16, 1773, 44 tons of tea -- worth $1.7 million in today's US dollars --  were hauled from the holds of the Dartmouth, Eleanor, and Beaver, and tossed into Boston harbor.

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Boston Tea Party, engraving by W.D. Cooper, circa 1789 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Tea_Party#

Cassell's Illustrated History of England, Volume 5 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:P102_THE_BOSTON_BOYS_THROWING_THE_TAXED_TEA_INTO_BOSTON_HARBOUR.jpg

Boston Tea Party, National Archives and Records Administration https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Boston_tea_party.jpg

Map from "Marshall's Life of Washington" Published by P. Phillips, London https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Boston_area_colonial_map.jpg

Scenes from the life of Benjamin Franklin by Louis Holman and Charles Mills  https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Scenes_from_the_life_of_Benjamin_Franklin_(1916)_(14781762031).jpg

Frontispiece of Poems on Various Subjects by Phillis Wheatley  https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Frontis.-_portrait_of_Phyllis_Wheatley,_and_title_p._of_Wheatley,_Poems_on_Various_Subjects...,_London,_1773_LCCN2004682060.jpg

The Brig Regulator entering Massachusetts Bay in 1837 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Brig_Regulator_tragedyofseasors01ellm_0049.jpg

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