Caption: This is the Boston Peep Party, a protest against the Tea Act of 1773 and taxation by the British! The green peeps on “The Peggy Stewart” represent the Americans, and the pink, the British. On the night of December 16, 1773, the American colonists boarded the ship (and two others) and threw out 342 chests of tea into the Boston Harbor. They also made the British burn “The Peggy Stewart”. (Note the frightened ducks and fish scurrying away!) These acts of revolt resulted in the promulgation of the Coercive Acts in 1774, leading to the American Revolutionary War.