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The Boston Tea Party took place on Sunday December 16, 1773. The event in total took about 2-3 hours. A group of local Bostonians known as "The Sons of Liberty" dressed up as Mohawk Indians and once the ship was docked, they stormed aboard it. Once aboard they flung all of the tea boxes over the edge into the ocean where it all sank to the bottom, gone forever. In total, almost 350 boxes (40 tons) of British owned tea was lost that night. The action was a message to the Brits', that the locals were not going to stand there acts any longer and certainly would not stand for "taxation without representation".