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What happend when three east india company ships arrived in boston harbor 1773?

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When three tea ships, the Dartmouth, the Eleanor, and the Beaver, arrived in Boston Harbor, the colonists demanded that the tea be returned to England. he colonists subsequently called the first Continental Congress to consider a united American resistance to the British.

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Boston Tea Party, (December 16, 1773), incident in which 342 chests of tea belonging to the British East India Company were thrown from ships into Boston Harbor by American patriots disguised as Mohawk Indians.

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