Thursday 23 July 2009

boston tea party ship

...up a short history book recently on the Boston Tea Party. I found the book, "American Tempest: How the Boston Tea Party Sparked a Revolution", by Harlow Giles Unger (Da Capo Press, Cambridge, MA, 2011) to be an engaging and well-researched account of what I am terming "Tea Party 1.0."... To stamp out the upstart American Tea Partiers rebellion, the aristocratic elites of England sent forth a mighty sailing ship. Unger: "A month later,...the ROMNEY, a fifty-gun...

view of boston tea party ship
view of boston tea party ship

The Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party

The Boston Tea Party Ship.
The Boston Tea Party Ship.

Original Boston Tea Party
Original Boston Tea Party

Boston Tea Party Ship
Boston Tea Party Ship

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#001 boston tea party ship

... what Wentworth calls “a campaign against progress, science, understanding, and compassion.” According to White, the title of Beaver was taken from one of the three ships that participated in the original Boston Tea Party.
Crashing the Tea Party - Stuff Boston

If it were not for “taxation without representation” Americans might still be “subjects” of the British Empire because, as any school child can tell you, the Revolution was fought over this issue and was kicked off in earnest by the Boston Tea Party when a tax on tea enraged the citizens of that time.... And some people still cannot understand why U.S. corporations are shipping jobs overseas and foreign corporations are reluctant to set up U.S. headquarters here.
boston tea party ship

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