![]() What should be done? Confusion and uncertainty plagued the government, which was beset with conflicting reports and opinions. As king of Great Britain since 1760, his realm also included the thirteen American colonies. “I am much hurt,” King George III confessed in mid-January 1774 when news of this outrage reached him in London. “This destruction of the tea,” John Adams declared, “is so bold, so daring, so firm, intrepid, & inflexible.” A silversmith named Paul Revere carried a detailed account of the event to New York and Philadelphia in the first of his famous gallops. “The devil is in these people,” a British naval officer wrote after seeing the damage. Īccomplices in small boats used rakes and oars to scatter the floating piles, and by morning almost £10,000 worth of soggy brown flakes drifted from the wharf to Castle Island and the Dorchester shore. For three hours they smashed the lids and scooped the tea leaves into the harbor.īOSTON TEA PARTY, DECEMBER 16, 1773. ![]() Prying open the hatches, they used pulleys to lift from the holds hundreds of heavy chests containing forty-five tons of tea. On the evening of December 16, 1773, a few dozen American colonists, men with their faces darkened by lampblack or charcoal, descended with war whoops down Milk Street in Boston to board three merchant ships moored at Griffin’s Wharf. ![]()
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