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Colonists in Boston boarded three ships and destroyed their cargo of East India Company tea in the harbour, in protest at the Tea Act, which had given the Company a privileged route into the American market while retaining the duty colonists objected to. The action was against monopoly and taxation, not against tea as such — smuggled Dutch tea was widely drunk in the colonies. Britain's punitive response accelerated the breach that became the American Revolutionary War. It is the clearest early demonstration that tea had become a political instrument rather than merely a beverage.

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  1. Story
  2. Colonists in Boston boarded three ships and destroyed their cargo of East India Company tea in the harbour, in protest at the Tea Act, which had given the Company a privileged route into the American market while retaining the duty colonists objected to. The action was against monopoly and taxation, not against tea as such — smuggled Dutch tea was widely drunk in the colonies. Britain's punitive response accelerated the breach that became the American Revolutionary War. It is the clearest early demonstration that tea had become a political instrument rather than merely a beverage.
  3. Knowledge
  4. Tea
  5. English (later British) East India Company
  6. London
  7. Boston Tea Party
  8. Connections
  9. Tea
  10. English (later British) East India Company
  11. London
  12. Camellia sinensis
  13. Silver
  14. London
  15. Tea Horse Road (Chamagudao)
  16. Canton (historical) — modern Guangzhou
  17. English (later British) East India Company
  18. Tea culture
  19. Tea buried in the Han Yangling mausoleum
  20. Tea-for-horse exchange between China and Tibet
  21. Tea first shipped to Europe by sea
  22. Qing trade confined to Canton
  23. Boston Tea Party
  24. Commutation Act cuts British tea duty
  25. Robert Bruce shown tea growing in Assam
  26. East India Company's China monopoly ends; Tea Committee founded
  27. First Assam tea auctioned in London
  28. The Opium Wars
  29. Treaty of Nanking
  30. Opium
  31. Assam
  32. Tea
  33. Robert Fortune
  34. Qing trade confined to Canton
  35. Boston Tea Party
  36. Commutation Act cuts British tea duty
  37. East India Company's China monopoly ends; Tea Committee founded
  38. Lin Zexu destroys confiscated opium at Humen
  39. The Opium Wars
  40. Robert Fortune removes tea plants and tea makers from China
  41. Parliament bans the use of printed calicoes
  42. Tea
  43. Afternoon tea
  44. Tea first shipped to Europe by sea
  45. Boston Tea Party
  46. Commutation Act cuts British tea duty
  47. First Assam tea auctioned in London
  48. London Marathon
  49. New York City
  50. White City Stadium
  51. The 1908 Olympic marathon fixes 26 miles 385 yards
  52. The first London Marathon
  53. The Great Exhibition
  54. Google DeepMind
  55. Evidence
  56. The destruction of East India Company tea in Boston harbour on 16 December 1773 was a protest against monopoly and taxation, not against tea consumption.
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