THE BOSTON TEA PARTY By Robert J. Allison

On December 16, 1773, men dressed as Indians boarded three ships anchored in Boston Harbor. Working quickly and efficiently, they brought up from the holds 342 chests containing 92,586 pounds of tea and dumped the contents overboard. In this concise narrative history of the event we now call the Boston Tea Party, noted Boston historian Robert J. Allison explains why tea led to violence in pre-Revolutionary times-and how what contemporaries called "the destruction of the tea" led to the American Revolution itself. 75 pages. paperback.