Saddled with a lot of debt and even bigger inventories, the East India Company needed to unload a lot of tea. So Parliament lowered the tax on company-owned tea and let the company undercut the ...
The crisis revived only when Parliament resolved to dump the tea of the ailing East India Company on colonial markets. Seizing on this pretext, a minority of determined patriots rekindled the ...
The East India Company placed its first order for tea in 1664 – it could only be bought from China at the time and the Company had a monopoly. It quickly became the Englishman’s afternoon ...
This familiar question makes it hard for us to imagine that in Britain, tea was once considered an exotic novelty. Imported by sea from China by the East India Company, tea was one of the 'new ...
Thanks to the East India Company, exotic goods like spices from Indonesia, tea and porcelain from China, became part of everydaylife. Every year, huge merchant ships of the East India Company ...
On Dec. 16, 1773, the Sons of Liberty dumped more than 300 crates of tea from the British East India Company into the Boston Harbor to protest “taxation without representation” in British ...