| Re: Boston Tea Party - 16th December 1773 Posted by rogerpatenall at 07:55, 17th December 2025 |     |
And many aspects of the town, including the church if I remember rightly, celebrate 'Bruton' as being important in their heritage.
| Re: Boston Tea Party - 16th December 1773 Posted by Electric train at 07:33, 17th December 2025 | |
Boston tea party is possibly on this side of the "pond" the most famous event of the revolution (or deepening on where you live independence), in November this year I visited Williamsburg in Virginia.
There is a recreation of the 1700's town, many houses, businesses, the Governors House, Capitol building, and the Raleigh Tavern. The colony of Virginia was self governing, raising its own taxes; the phase "no taxation without representation" used as the "battle cry" in the war of independence comes from the Magna Carta, it was the imposition of tax by the English Parliament at which the colonies had no representatives (MP's)
In May 1769, Governor Botetourt dissolved the House of Burgesses after its members protested about taxation. No longer able to meet at the Capitol, the former Burgesses convened at the Raleigh Tavern, where they agreed to limit imports from Britain until Parliament repealed its taxes. They prohibited, among other things, imported “Spirits, Wine, Cyder . . . Beer and Ale.” Afterward, the ex-Burgesses drank toasts to the king, queen, governor, and “a speedy and lasting Union between Great Britain and her Colonies.”
There is an Amtrack station at Williamsburg so is reachable by train from Washington DC, although sadly I was taken there by car
| Boston Tea Party - 16th December 1773 Posted by grahame at 08:15, 16th December 2025 | |
We could serve tea as well as coffee ...
On this day, 16th December 1773, the "Boston Tea Party" was held - from Britannica
On this day in 1773, a group of men dressed in Mohawk headdresses and cheered by a crowd of thousands threw tea belonging to the British East India Company into Boston Harbor. Britain's punitive response to the Boston Tea Party, which was a protest against taxes, helped push American colonists closer to war.
Only tangentially related to transport, but our "On this day" otherwise suggested "no events reported" ...
I was thinking, for 2026 ... oh, never mind ... we still have a couple of weeks to plan and get ideas together. And our coffee shop seems much more civilised that their tea party if reports from the time are to be believed.
