The Boston Tea Party protested the Tea Act that taxed a major drink in colonial America. The British government responds by closing the port of Boston and increasing royal control in the colony. This victory for the patriots results in the first capture of a British naval vessel and gives the first written evidence of trench warfare in history. On June 17, British solders suffer 1,000 casualties routing American soldiers from Breed's Hill in Charlestown, Massachusetts. This becomes the Battle of Bunker Hill due to confusion between the two hills.
British troops evacuate Boston and fight most of the Revolutionary War further south.
He will also serve 1787-93, until his death and subsequent burial in the Granary Burying Ground. He goes on to design the United States Capitol. Lowell, with Boston merchants Patrick Tracy Jackson and Nathan Appleton, founds the Boston Manufacturing Company, which starts mills first in Waltham, Massachusetts and then in Lowell, Massachusetts. These men represent the English capitalists that founded many of the mills and mill towns surrounding Boston. While the working class can be seen in the unions and associations it founded, the middle class left few historical records of its presence.