Daily Survival Guide

Today in Survival History
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On this day in 1773, Massachusetts colonists raided three British tea ships and staged the Boston Tea Party. Disguised as Mohawk Indians, the rebels entered Boston Harbor and dumped 342 chests of tea into the water in protest of the British Parliament's Tea Act of 1773. Patriot leader Samuel Adams and other members of the Sons of Liberty stormed the tea ships after Governor Thomas Hutchinson refused to send them back to England. In response to the dumping of £18,000 of tea, England enacted the Intolerable Acts, which drove the two countries closer to war.