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After Hours: The Invoice
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After Hours: The Invoice

Source: East India Company Request for Compensation for the Boston Tea Party, February 1774 — The National Archives (UK), CO 5/247

Two months after the Boston Tea Party, the East India Company wrote a letter to the British government asking to be reimbursed for 340 chests of tea that a “lawless rabble” threw into the harbor. They included an itemized inv…

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