A huge day in British-American history was marked by the River Thames yesterday marking 250 years since British ships left for the American colonies of the British Empire carrying East India Company tea - which would ultimately be destroyed in protest upon the ships’ arrival in Boston in December i.e. The Boston Tea Party! The events sparked the American Revolution, all because of some fury over a British tea tax. Unlike in 1773 the event is now politely recognised as a gesture, with the @theeas