Was brick tea thrown overboard at the Boston Tea Party? Tea historian Bruce Richardson shreds that myth.
Was Brick Tea Thrown Overboard at the Boston Tea Party?
5 Facts You Don’t Know About the Boston Tea Party
December 16 marks the anniversary of one of the most iconic events in American history. On that night in 1773, about 150 men disguised their faces and tossed 340 chests of tea from three ships docked in Boston Harbor. The already contentious relationship between the colonists and their English overseers deteriorated even further until, on April…
Tour the Tea Clipper Cutty Sark in London
The iconic clipper ship Cutty Sark has come back to life in her new Greenwich dry dock on the eastern edge of London, not far from where tea clippers once brought endless cargos of tea into the warehouses of the East India Company. Her journey here was not without incident, and we are fortunate to have…