Weatherday: Boston Tea Party

The strong winds of the night will peak during the morning and then ease back to moderate. Rain during the morning will be heavy by lunchtime and continue through the afternoon.

Highest temperatures 8deg. Be careful on the roads, wind, fallen debris, and spot flooding will make travelling hazardous.

On this day in 1773, revolutionary activists threw a cargo of tea into Boston Harbour in protest at unfair taxation. The incident triggered the American Revolution which began in Boston two years later.

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