Boston and tea parties

________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _____ The Boston 'Tea Party' which started the rebellion against the English was in fact the dumping of a consignment of tea in Boston Harbour as a gesture of revolt against 'taxation without representation'. Today a museum and replica tea clipper stand on the site (left) ...........

__________________.........whereas today the upper crust hold their tea parties in Beacon ________________________Hill the old and elegant section of Boston pictured (right)