3617886 The harbour in Boston, Massachusetts, c.1770-80 (etching) by Habermann, Franz Xavier (1721-96); Private Collection; (add.info.: In the wake of the 1773 Boston Tea Party, the British Parliament closed the port to ships with the 1774 Boston Port Act, the first of the Coercive, or Intolerable Acts, five laws passed by the British Parliament to suppress resistance to its authority over the American colonies. The Revolutionary War began in April 1775 and retreating British troops were trapped inside the city by local militiamen. This is an idealized European view of Boston as a typical European city.); German, out of copyright.