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The answer is Colonists in disguise boarded ships in Boston Harbor and dumped a shipment of tea in the water.
Boston Tea Party, (December 16, 1773), incident in which 342 chests of tea belonging to the British East India Company were thrown from ships into Boston Harbor by American patriots disguised as Mohawk Indians. The Americans were protesting both a tax on tea (taxation without representation) and the perceived monopoly of the East India Company.
Colonists in disguise boarded ships in Boston Harbor and dumped a shipment of tea in the water.