2. The Boston Tea Party – Economic Sabotage
On December 16, 1773, American colonists, protesting British taxation, boarded three ships in Boston Harbor—the Dartmouth, the Eleanor, and the Beaver—and dumped 342 chests of tea into the water. This act of defiance against the Tea Act, which granted the British East India Company a monopoly on tea sales in the colonies, struck a significant blow against British authority and has since been seen as a defining act of civil and economic sabotage (smithsonianmag.com).
