one of the most infamous protests leading up to the American Revolution, is days away. In December 1773, political activists known as the Sons of Liberty took to Boston Harbor to dump more than ...

March 5 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1770, British troops killed five colonials in the so-called Boston Massacre, one of the events that led to the American Revolution. History buffs ...

In the 1760s and 1770s, Britain levied taxes and duties on her American ... into the harbor. Among the known participants were Paul Revere and Joseph Warren. When news of the Boston Tea Party ...

Everyone knows that the American Revolution began in ... role in the Massachusetts rebellion. Boston was a densely populated settlement isolated by its harbor and a river, and bordered on three ...

“We look at the Boston Tea Party as the single most important event that led up to the American Revolution,” says ... re talking about going across the harbor… to Charlestown,” she clarifies.

The city's historic harbor along the Massachusetts Bay set the scene for a significant portion of Boston's story; once the site of Revolution-era protests like the Boston Tea Party, this body of ...