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4: "Boston Harbor A Tea-Pot This Night:" The Boston Tea Party

History That Doesn't Suck

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Tea and Chests Crash Into the Harbor

The men work efficiently and silently for three hours, all the while knowing that the 60 fourth regiment resides just across the harbor at castle island. Do any of our unnamed t demolitionists think about these forces at this moment? Or are they so drunk on renelin, in confidence and may be run, that they fear nothing as tea and chests alike crash into the harbor's cold waters? Later that same night, elizabeth hunt palmer, or just betsy, as her friends and family know her,. finds herself face to face with native americans, right here in her house. In betsy's own words, there stood three stout looking indians. I screamed and should have f

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