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Larsonoy, three cargoes of tea were emptied into the sea. This morning a man of war sails.

This is the most magnificent movement of all. There is a dignity, a majesty, a sublimity

in this last effort of the patriots that I greatly admire. The people should never rise

without doing something to be remembered, something notable and streaking. This destruction

of the tea is so bold, so daring, so firm, intrepid and inflexible, and it must have

so important consequences and so lasting that I can't but consider it as an epoch in history.

So that Dominic was John Adams, and we agreed in the previous episode that we've been doing

on the American War of Independence. That's exactly how Americans spoke, they spoke

like people from Devon, and he was writing on the 16th of December, 1773 about a tea-related

Anglo-American in Broilieu. You may remember that a few months ago there was great outrage

in Britain because an American YouTuber suggested making tea by boiling the water in a

microwave, which was shocking and shows that, really, Americans are still up to their

tea-related, tea-related atrocities, but this is the kind of the primal Anglo-American

tea-related bust up, isn't it? It isn't tea party, although it didn't actually get

that name for 50 years until after the actual event. Absolutely right, Tom. Hello, everybody.

Welcome back. Just to be absolutely clear, we've done quite a lot of linguistic research

haven't we, Tom? Yes. That absolutely is how the founding fathers sounded. We have an

absolute top historian, Oxford Professor Adam Smith, an expert on American history, and

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