What 1773 protest is depicted in Assassin’s Creed III?

The Boston Tea Party is the 1773 protest depicted in Assassin’s Creed III.

In the game, Connor participates in the historic protest in Boston, where colonists board ships and throw tea into the harbor to oppose taxation and the East India Company’s tea policy. The sequence connects Connor’s fictional Assassin story with a well-known event preceding the American Revolution.

The real Boston Tea Party took place on December 16, 1773. It was organized by American colonists protesting the Tea Act and the principle of taxation without representation. The destruction of the tea became one of the most famous acts of resistance against British rule.

The event is sometimes confused with the Boston Massacre, which occurred in 1770, or with later battles such as Bunker Hill. Assassin’s Creed III includes several revolutionary-era events, but the harbor protest shown in the game is the Boston Tea Party.