Archive for December 16th, 2021
REMEMBERING THE CHRISTMAS CATALOG
THREE MILITARY HEROS AWARDED MEDALS
From left: Sgt. 1st Class Alwyn Cashe, Sgt. 1st Class
Christopher Celiz and Master Sgt. Earl Plumlee received
the Medal of Honor on Dec. 16, 2021 in a White House
ceremony.
President Biden awarding the Medal of Honor to Master Sgt.
Earl Plumlee.
TROUBLE BREWING AT BOSTON HARBOR
In Boston Harbor on this day in 1773, a group of Massachusetts
colonists disguised as Mohawk Indians board three British tea
ships and dump 342 chests of tea into the harbor.
The midnight raid, popularly known as the “Boston Tea Party,”
was in protest of the British Parliament’s Tea Act of 1773, a bill
designed to save the faltering East India Company by greatly
lowering its tea tax and granting it a virtual monopoly on the
American tea trade. The low tax allowed the East India Company
to undercut even tea smuggled into America by Dutch traders, a
nd many colonists viewed the act as another example of taxation
tyranny.
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