Reply #46: yes, the BOSTON TEA PARTY....destruction of company property... [View All]

[diamond14]

a very FAMOUS political protest...to this day, these BRAVE AMERICAN PATRIOTS are honored and revered in our Nation's history.....


they got out there and DESTROYED the tea from the British East India Company...a KEY point in the American Revolution...with a boycott that dropped sales for the British tea from 320,000 pounds to 520 pounds.....and it only took 60 Americans to do this....



There, three ships—the Dartmouth, the Eleanor and the Beaver—were loaded with crates of tea. The men boarded the ships and began destroying the cargo. By 9 PM, with only one incident, they had smashed 342 crates of tea in all three ships and had thrown them into Boston Harbor. They took off their shoes, swept the decks, and made each ship's first mate attest that they had destroyed only the tea. The whole event was remarkably quiet and peaceful.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_tea_party