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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The East India Company was started by merchants close merchantA person involved in buying and selling items, usually between different countries. In the British Empire, this was done using a lot ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
The initial acquisition of India under the British East India Company and the ongoing domination under the British Raj of a population many times the size of the occupying force proved to be a ...