The Tea Merchant

Official account for Leena Bhatnagar's "The Tea Merchant," an Amazon #1 bestseller about the Boston Tea Party 🫖 // Spilling tea since 1773 #Tea1773

[The Tea Merchant @TeaMerchant1773]

Boston 1773: A city on the brink. The empire tightens its grip to save the hated East India Company. And one merchant, torn between liberty and loyalty, uncovers a grave threat to the colonies that puts her to the ultimate test. Out now: THE TEA MERCHANT https://t.co/R3tP5r1BBx

[The Tea Merchant @TeaMerchant1773]

Also, am loving how history fits together in #Franklin. Had a great visit to @SconePalace earlier this month and it’s wonderful to see the depiction of Lord Stormont’s time at Versailles

[The Tea Merchant @TeaMerchant1773]

While I’m enjoying #Franklin on @AppleTV, I’ve realized my love of #AmRev history may spoil the inevitable “ah ha” moment coming. Worth it if it means others will gain appreciation for Beaumarchais, Lafayette, etc., at long last!

[The Tea Merchant @TeaMerchant1773]

@jroberts1324 So true! I want to know what the reader thought, felt, experienced. Summaries are for back covers / jackets!

[The Tea Merchant @TeaMerchant1773]

@SalinaBBaker I just watched Ep 1 tonight and am loving the character and plot exposition. Plus that music and cinematography!

[The Tea Merchant @TeaMerchant1773]

@plottingpapist @Boston1775 https://t.co/ZQ9lQg5g4A

[The Tea Merchant @TeaMerchant1773]

Thank you, su!!

[American Revolution Institute @AmRevInstitute]

#OTD in 1776, under the cover of night, Washington and his troops crossed the #DelawareRiver to capture the Hessian garrison at Trenton. The dramatic event was memorialized 75 years later in a painting by German-born American artist Emanuel Leutze.

[The Tea Merchant @TeaMerchant1773]

@BostonHistory Fantastic work by @TeaCrisis1773 !

[The Tea Merchant @TeaMerchant1773]

Not them playing the soundtrack of The Patriot in the background 😢

[Virginia American Revolution 250 Commemoration @VARevolution250]

Watch the livestream! 🥁🥁🥁 https://t.co/tjTCxErWN2

[The Tea Merchant @TeaMerchant1773]

O to be in Boston tonight!

[Cortney Skinner @CortSkinner]

Tonight’s moon is identical to the moon that oversaw the Destruction of the Tea 250 years ago this evening in 1773.

[J. L. Bell @Boston1775]

@AmericanStudier @TeaMerchant1773 @BostonHistory @sheidley @MHS1791 You’ll enjoy looking at the @TeaCrisis1773 stream.

[The Tea Merchant @TeaMerchant1773]

@UKinUSA @UKinBoston But no! That “pernicious herb” could not be tolerated! Boston Harbor, a teapot tonight (again)!

[The Tea Merchant @TeaMerchant1773]

It’s the 250th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party! On my recent trip to Williamsburg, I met a printer who shared a song written soon after the event and he just happened to be printing the page announcing details of the Tea Act - what luck!

[The Tea Merchant @TeaMerchant1773]

Thrilled to find myself in great company - thank you, Ben! The broader group of BostonStudiers is a generous bunch from whom I’ve learned so much! Happy 250th!

[Ben Railton @AmericanStudier]

So for a special weekend follow-up to my Tea Party blog series, here are a handful of awesome BostonStudiers from whom I've learned a ton: @TeaMerchant1773 @Boston1775 @BostonHistory @sheidley & everyone at @MHS1791! #twitterstorians

https://t.co/ES2ODMx82P

[The Tea Merchant @TeaMerchant1773]

Happy 250th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party!

[The Tea Merchant @TeaMerchant1773]

Did you know the #BostonTeaParty is directly linked to the history of Bengal? It's all about Empire, the East India Company, and economics. Learn how in my talk, part of the official #BostonTeaParty250 festivities #spillthetea #tea1773
https://t.co/TKLxgUxagu

[History Dame @history_dame]

Today marks 250 years since the Boston Tea Party on December 16, 1773 and I have no doubts your feeds will be saturated!

So here’s my quick little “spilling the tea” about the myths.

Learn more about the other tea parties, including the first one: https://t.co/85S0tB9UXF

[Virginia American Revolution 250 Commemoration @VARevolution250]

#OnThisDay, 250 years ago, protestors boarded ships carrying tea by the East India Company and threw the crates overboard.. Known as the Boston Tea Party, this was a major event that accelerated colonial support that would lead towards a revolution.
#VA250 @REV250BOS

[US Capitol Historical Society @CapitolHistory]

#OTD in 1773, during the #BostonTeaParty, Patriots dumped 340 tea chests off British ships so they couldn't be unloaded or taxed. This protest against unjust taxation, #JohnAdams said, would have “so important Consequences…that I cannot but consider it as an Epocha in #History.”