The Boston Tea Party (TRIH ep 348, part 2)
1773 · Resource
This episode (the second in The Rest Is History's series on the American War of Independence) explores the escalation from colonial protest to open rebellion. Hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook are joined by Oxford historian Adam Smith to discuss the Tea Act of 1773, the Boston Tea Party (16 December 1773) and British motives behind the policy favoring the East India Company.
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- American Declaration of Independence (1776)
- American Revolution (1765)
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- Haitian Revolution (1791)
- Jacobite rising of 1745 (1745)
- French Revolution (1789)
- Latin American wars of independence (1808)