It began after people poured out of the Old South Meeting House and dressed like Mohawks, possibly after hearing a signal from Samuel Adams.
This event is in the title of an Alfred Young book about George Robert Twelves Hewes, a shoemaker. The financier Robert Murray tried to pay for the damage done in this event. Historian George Bancroft helped to spread the urban legend that the signal for it was a phrase about how "nothing more to save the country" can be done. This event inspired a similar incident in Annapolis directed against the Peggy Stewart, and it was inflamed by Governor Thomas Hutchinson's hard line stance. It began after people poured out of the Old South Meeting House and dressed like Mohawks, possibly after hearing a signal from Samuel Adams. For 10 points, name this December 1773 event in which members of the Sons of Liberty dressed like Indians and ruined shipments.
This event is in the title of an Alfred Young book about George Robert Twelves Hewes, a shoemaker.
Boston Tea Party