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Did Britain Really Lose America Over a Cup of Tea?

By HK Sparks
Unabridged — 29 minutes
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By HK Sparks
Unabridged — 29 minutes
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Forget the storybook version of the American Revolution where a few pennies in taxes sparked a war for liberty; the real story is a 1770s corporate thriller about a "too big to fail" bailout. This two-part investigative narrative pulls back the curtain on the British Empire's biggest blunder: trying to save the nearly bankrupt East India Company by forcing its surplus inventory onto a captive American market. From the backroom cronyism of the Lo...