American colonists protested British taxation by boarding ships in Boston Harbor and dumping 342 chests of tea into the water ...

Welcome to part 1 of our two-part series, The Evolution of Iced Tea. In this installment, we'll explore the history of the ...

On March 2, 1775, a group of women protested the Tea Act by dumping 300 pounds of British East India Company tea into a giant fire started by protestors. Secretary of State Gregg Amore and local ...

By the 1800s, tea had become the East India Company’s most valuable traded commodity. But, the British had a problem. They were entirely dependent on China for the tea and desperately needed another ...

which lowered the cost of tea in the American colonies. 2. There was concern that the East India Company’s tea would push out local merchants’ smuggled tea. It’s long been argued that many ...

According to Colonial Williamsburg, in the years before members of the Sons of Liberty in Boston disguised themselves as “Mohawk” warriors and destroyed British East India Company tea in their ...

In the early 2000s, Mehta’s path intersected with the historic East India Company, a name that had become a shadow of its former self. Originally a powerful trading entity with a 400-year history, the ...

The first attempts to establish tea plantations in Assam were made in the early 19th century when the British East India Company aimed at ending China’s monopoly on tea exports. Realizing the ...

At the time of the East India Company’s rule ... “An India store in Dublin in the 1930s, run by an Indian man, sold tea among other products that were shipped directly from India,” she ...

Tea plants were brought to Indonesia in the 1700s by the Dutch East India Company. Indonesia mainly produces black and green teas. The favourable climate supports a thriving tea plantation industry.

You shouldn’t be. Sit back, relax and take a sip of imperial nostalgia with a fine cup of English tea. Everything is for sale. Even the East India Company. Even in 2005. In fact, that was when ...

Gryphon sources its tea leaves from countries such as Egypt, Croatia, US, Paraguay, China, Japan, India and Sri Lanka ... distribution in Singapore and South-east Asia, said Lim. A more typical path ...