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Boston Tea Party | 3. The destruction of the tea

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🗓️ 28 December 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

The destruction of more than 46 tonnes of tea on the evening of 16 December 1773 is an event that holds huge importance in the popular story of the USA’s independence. But how much is actually known about the events of that night? Who organised it, and who took part? What can we learn from the disguises they employed? And how did the act of civil disobedience inflame tensions to new heights? The HistoryExtra podcast is produced by the team behind BBC History Magazine and BBC History Revealed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to Just Between Us, the podcast with all of the answers, some of the time.

0:05.0

A bit of a different thing going on this week.

0:07.3

You've been immature and you've lied.

0:10.3

And now you're trying to turn it on me and manipulate me and gaslight me.

0:13.9

I was trying to manipulate you.

0:15.7

Diana, you would be chucking their clothes out of the window.

0:18.1

I know, I'd be like, are you joking?

0:20.6

I don't know.

0:21.7

I guess you'd have to ask.

0:23.5

Someone that has sex.

0:24.2

Someone that has sex.

0:26.2

And remember, it's just between us.

0:29.9

In October 1773, seven ships departed from England, carrying nearly £600,000

0:37.3

pounds of the East India Company's tea

0:39.5

that was destined for the American colonies. Following the Tea Act, which had been passed by the

0:46.7

Parliament of Great Britain earlier that year, the tea would only be sold to the East India

0:51.5

Company's own agents in the colonies in an attempt to monopolise

0:55.6

the tea market. As these ships made their way across the Atlantic, a storm was brewing, one

1:02.3

with tea at its centre. Welcome to episode three of Boston Tea Party, Igniting a Revolution.

1:11.1

I'm your host, Eleanor Evans, and this episode we'll look at how, in the wake of the tea act,

1:17.3

tensions in the colony of Massachusetts rose to breaking point.

1:21.0

We'll hear from experts on the climactic moments before the infamous destruction of the tea

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