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An illustration showing protesters dressed as Native Americans emptying the contents of crates of tea from an East India Company ship into Boston harbour

The brutality behind the Boston Tea Party. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

VideoAn introduction to George III. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Boat with lots of people rebelling

Boston Tea Party5. A complex legacy. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Boat with lots of people rebelling

Boston Tea Party4. The crackdown. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Boat with lots of people rebelling

Boston Tea Party3. The destruction of the tea. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Boat with lots of people rebelling

Boston Tea Party2. The Sons of Liberty. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Boat with lots of people rebelling

Boston Tea Party1. Tea and taxes. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A cartoon about the Tea Act shows a colonist reading the proclamation with concern

What was the 1773 Tea Act?

Video podcastGeorgian grand houses: the forgotten women who built them. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Georgian grand houses: the forgotten women who built them. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Deborah Meaden and Lady Hester Stanhope

My history heroDeborah Meaden chooses Lady Hester Stanhope. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A portrait of George Robert Twelves Hewes

George Robert Twelves Hewes: the shoemaker who became a patriot

American suffragettes picket a building

The global legacy of the Boston Tea Party. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

This illustration shows “Boston boys throwing tea into the harbour” on 16 December 1773

Boston Tea Party: your guide to the protest that ignited a revolution

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The dangerous road to the Bastille. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Napoleon’s mother, Letizia Bonaparte

Who was Letizia Bonaparte, the mother of Napoleon?

The marriage of Napoleon Bonaparte to Habsburg Archduchess Marie-Louise

Napoleon’s other wife: who was Habsburg Archduchess Marie-Louise?

Joséphine de Beauharnais

Joséphine de Beauharnais: how Napoleon's muse became empress of France

Joaquin Phoenix as Napoleon Bonaparte

Ridley Scott’s Napoleon: how accurate is the movie? The real history explained

Allies in retreat from Austerlitz

Austerlitz: how Napoleon crushed the Austro-Russian army

Eleanor Glanville: butterfly collector. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An illustration showing the court of Ottoman sultan Selim III, featuring men in a courtyard and the seated sultan.

What was the global impact of the Napoleonic Wars?

The Meux & Co. brewery on Tottenham Court Road in c1830

The London Beer Flood of 1814: what happened in the deadly tragedy?

Napoleonic Wars timeline: the key dates you need to know

A portrait of the Duke of Wellington at the battle of Waterloo (18 June 1815) during the Napoleonic Wars. Although Waterloo was "undeniably the most pivotal battle of this campaign", it was not the final battle against France, says Jem Duducu. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

7 things you (probably) didn’t know about the Napoleonic Wars

Slave traders: the men who built a brutal empire. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

8 scandals that rocked Georgian Britain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Portrait of Elizabeth Linley

8 scandals that shocked Georgian Britain

Scandals that shocked Georgian Britain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.