SASless you forgot 'by force of arms (and with the help of the French) we defeated your army and navy etc..'
It is sad that what was an economic dispute (taxing tea) was so poorly handled by the British government and could have been settled so simply. There must have been some lessons learned though - the British gave the East India company a monopoly on importing tea thus denying American merchants the ability to trade....this sort of business ethic is the same employed by the likes of Microsoft and IBM!!