Boston Tea Party

American patriots, the Sons of Liberty, some disguised as Mohawk Indians, boarded three British East India Company ships and threw 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbour. The Americans were protesting a tax on tea and the tea import monopoly of the East India Company. This was the first notable action that would lead to the American War of Independence and the Declaration of Independence on 4 July 1776. The protest (much later) came to be known as 'The Boston Tea Party'.