Eh…
The Tea story was England had been ignoring smuggling, then after a lot of warnings, enforced it by seizing smuggled tea and shipping it to England to be taxed.
This meant the only tea on the market was legal tea and a very very small reserve of smuggled.
So the smugglers dumped all the legal tea into the harbour, driving up both prices, making tea prohibitively expensive for most Americans, but maintained profits.
It’s presented as an act of rebellion, when it was spoiled rich people di king over the commonors for money.
And the jet engine was invented by a Brit. For political reasons the Brits destroyed their native jet fighter industry in favor of Americans during the Cold War but that’s a whole other sad story
Germany had the first jetfighters tho :)
The British anti smuggling operations were largely ineffective before and during the war. Dutch tea wasn’t particularly uncommon. Of the rich smugglers of Boston the most notable was John Hancock, who by all accounts was quite philanthropic with his wealth.
Fuck you Redcoat. America! Fuck yeah!
Really good write up summary of the event for anyone interested. There’s also an audio version of it.
https://blog.amrevpodcast.com/2018/04/episode-040-boston-tea-party.html?m=1
This smells like 2010
