词汇 | boston tea party |
词源 | Boston Tea Party. The first act of violence in the disputes leading to the Revolutionary War, occurring on December 16, 1773 when members of the Sons of Liberty, incensed by the tax on tea, boarded British ships and dumped 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbor. |
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