In a span of three hours, they smashed 340 chests of tea and dumped over 92,000 pounds of tea into Boston Harbor. The damage caused, in today's money, was worth more than $1.7 million.

Travel How Boston is marking the 250th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party Step back into 1773 during citywide reenactments of the historic event on Saturday. Tea is dumped into the Boston Harbor ...

Patriotic mobs and harbor tea-dumping returned to Boston on Saturday as the city marked the 250th anniversary of the revolutionary protest that preceded America’s independence.

On the evening of December 16, 1773, 250 years ago today, New England colonists disguised as Native Americans calmly boarded three ships in Boston Harbor and dumped 90,000 pounds of tea overboard ...

The Tea Party was when colonists in Massachusetts dumped a large amount of tea into the Boston Harbor to show their opposition to British taxation policies.

BOSTON - Boston celebrated the 250th anniversary of the Boston tea party and the beginning of the American revolution on Saturday. Thousands of people gathered here along the Boston Harbor to ...

In the 250 years since members of the Sons of Liberty boarded ships in Boston Harbor to dump their cargo of imported tea overboard — on Dec. 16, 1773 — the right to protest over inadequate ...

What was the Boston Tea Party protest about? The protest known as the Boston Tea Party was in response to the Tea Act, which, in part, maintained a tax on tea imposed by the British Parliament.

Today's value of the 92,000 pounds of tea dumped into Boston Harbor is an estimated $1.8 million.

Some modern estimates say the destroyed tea would have brewed more than 18 million cups, according to the Boston Tea Party Ships & Museum. What was the Boston Tea Party protest about?

Kristin Harris, the research coordinator at the Boston Tea Party Ships and Museum, emptied tea that had been sent to the museum to be thrown in the Boston Harbor on Dec. 16 for the 250th ...