Rockport Harbor colt: "Spondulix"

[Indian Charlie]

Originally Posted by Danzig

i thought it was because of the monopoly created by the east india co and the english govt, as well as a general protest against all the intolerable acts...

there's a name-intolerable acts

Yeah, that's what they generally teach us.

From a recent book I just read, however, we have....

"Another great event in the history of the United States is the infamous Boston Tea Party. You know the story. On December 16, 1773, a group of colonists, angry at paying higher taxes on their tea, dressed up like Indians and dumped crates of tea bricks belonging to the British East India Company into the Boston Harbor. Not sure why we're so proud of an act of vandalism, but that's beside the point.

The point is, the Tea Act, which the colonists were supposedly angry about, actually reduced the duty on British tea imported to America. So why did they really revolt? Because once British tea was affordable, it would ruin America's lucrative trade in black-market tea, because three-fourths of the tea sold in America was smuggled in by John Hancock. Now the whole idea of dressing up like Indians makes sense, doesn't it?"

This is readily verified.