The Tea Party was not a freak explosion of radical ... "This Destruction of the Tea," wrote John Adams, "is so bold, so daring, so firm, intrepid, and inflexible, and it must have so important ...

Although he had not liked his fellow colonists' destructive response to the Stamp Act eight years earlier, John Adams applauded the Boston Tea Party. He wrote in his Diary, "There is a Dignity ...

In 1773 rebels unconvincingly disguised as Mohawk Indians boarded three docked ships in Boston Harbor and dumped 90,000 pounds of tea overboard ... was written by John Adams.