Why is that the case? We don't really know, but some have guessed it's because tea was becoming more popular in Ireland when ...

On March 2, 1775, a group of women protested the Tea Act by dumping 300 pounds of British East India Company tea into a giant ...

The American people have long demonstrated antipathy towards tariffs and duty fees. In Boston on December 16, 1773, in response to increasing tariffs on tea under the monopoly control of ...

PRESENTER:'Britain had become a tea-drinking nation, 'but tea was only grown in China. 'So ships of the British East India Company 'came here to buy more and more of it. PRESENTER:'But this ...

As early as 1774 the East India Company was exploring the possibilities of growing tea in other countries apart from China and sent a few seeds to the British emissary in Bhutan to plant there.

As we know that the British East India Company came to India with the purpose of trade mainly in spices. Apart from that they also traded in silk, cotton, indigo dye, tea, and opium. The arrival ...