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		| the Boston Tea Party 
 
 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.
 
 
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