In an early case of industrial espionage, Robert Fortune disguised himself as a local and took tea leaves and the secrets of ...

From birthdays to bad news, making tea is the British response to every situation. But do you know the real reason why the ...

The Birth of Assam’s Tea Industry. 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 ...

One of the most controversial acts passed was the 1773 Tea Act in May, which allowed the British East India Company to sell tea to the colonies duty-free and cheaper than other tea companies, ...

The British Parliament had just given the British East India Company a monopoly on selling tea in America as a bailout to the teetering company. This would have actually made tea cheaper, but ...

The East India Company is even joining in, donating 250 pounds of tea. "It was our tea that was dumped in Boston Harbor so, as the starting point, it's a great event for us to be part of and to ...

The captain of the Dartmouth unknowingly filled his ship with the now infamous British East India Company tea. As the Dartmouth set sail to Boston, ...

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.

Meanwhile, Parliament's trying to rescue the British East India Company, which people thought was too big to fail in the way we used to talk about that in the 2007 times.

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.