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The Tea Heist Everyone Remembers Wrong
Robert Fortune's mission of 1848 to 1851 delivered upwards of 20,000 Chinese tea plants and eight tea makers to the East India Company's Himalayan gardens. The industry that broke China's hold on the export trade grew in Assam, on Assam's own plant, with Chinese tea makers hired a decade before him.
Aug 1, 2026 →