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chained_bear commented on the word destruction of the tea
More commonly known today as the Boston tea party, but that phrase was not in widespread use until the 1830s, as part of a larger cultural movement to identify what were essentially violent mob actions of the 1770s as founding events and convey an aura of gentility. The eighteenth-century term for the event was not really standardized either, but this phrase was commonly used to describe it.
August 26, 2008