(the) Boston Tea Party

(the) Boston Tea Party
the Boston Tea Party UK [ˌbɒst(ə)n ˈtiː ˌpɑː(r)ti] US [ˌbɔstən ˈti ˌpɑrti]
a protest held in the US city of Boston in 1773. Americans threw boxes of tea from British ships into the sea to show the British government that they did not want to pay tax on the tea. The protest was one of the events that led to the American War of Independence . http://www.macmillandictionary.com/med2cd/weblinks/boston-tea-party-the.htm
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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.

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