At 06:46 PM 6/5/2002 -0400, you wrote: > Are you aware that the tea thrown over the side at the Boston Tea party >was really thrown over because it was afraid its cheap price would break the >tea embargo ? Once the price came down they were afraid that people would >resume their old tea drinking habits. The trading company had changed its >policies so the new tea would be cheaper than the smuggled tea. John >Hancock, who was a tea smuggler, had his own reason for protesting the cheap >tea. Few seem to note that the standoff in Boston had a lot to do with the right of some Bostonians to smuggle. Later the motivations in the war became much more illustrious, but in the beginning, it had a lot to do with profit. John Robertson