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Boston Tea Party
Badly disguised as Indians, a rowdy group of patriotic vandals kicked a revolution into motion
On the evening of December 16, 1773, in Boston, several score Americans, some badly disguised as Mohawk Indians, their faces smudged with blacksmith’s coal dust, ran down to Griffin’s Wharf, where they boarded three British vessels. Read more >>
For ten tumultuous years Sam Adams burned with a single desire: American independence from Great Britain.