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The Boston Tea Party was a political protest staged on December 16, 1773 at Griffin’s Wharf in Boston, Massachusetts. American colonists, frustrated at Britain for imposing “taxation without representation,” dumped 342 chests of British tea into the harbor. The event was the first major act of defiance to British rule over the colonists.

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Captain Hezekiah Coffin commanded the first American ship to round Cape Horn. He also commanded a Nantucket whaler, one of three vessels in Boston Harbour (the others were Dartmouth and Eleanor) which had their cargoes dumped overboard during the Boston Tea Party on the night of 16 December 1773 The Boston Tea Party, Boston Tea Party, Cape Horn, 16 December, Boston Tea, Benjamin Franklin, Creative Sketches, Pencil Illustration, Historical Society

Captain Hezekiah Coffin commanded the first American ship to round Cape Horn. He also commanded a Nantucket whaler, one of three vessels in Boston Harbour (the others were Dartmouth and Eleanor) which had their cargoes dumped overboard during the Boston Tea Party on the night of 16 December 1773

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