at which lay moored on Dec. 16, 1773, three British ships with cargoes
of tea. To defeat King George's trivial but tyrannical tax of three
pence a pound, about ninety citizens of Boston, partly disguised
as Indians, boarded the ships, threw the cargoes, three hundred and
forty-two chests in all, into the sea and made the world ring with the
patriotic exploit of the