the Boston Tea Party

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the Boston Tea Party [the Boston Tea Party] BrE NAmE
an incident in American history. It occurred on 16 December 1773, two years before the ↑American Revolution. In order to protest about the British tax on tea, a group of Americans dressed as Indians went onto three British ships in ↑Boston harbour and threw 342 large boxes of tea into the sea.