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On the cold, snowy night of March 5, 1770, a mob of American colonists gathers at the Customs House in Boston and begins taunting the British soldiers guarding the building.
On February 22 Ebenezer Richardson, a neighbor of one of those merchants, shot and killed an 11-year-old boy who was part of a mob harassing him for trying to take down the sign. The child’s death sparked a week of riots—and when a handbill posted on March 5 claimed that the British soldiers were preparing to defend themselves, the rioters ...
On March 2 and 3 of 1770, British troops and a band of Boston ropemakers squared off in a series of street brawls that left one infantryman with a fractured skull.
The “Boston Massacre” was an event that took place on March 5, 1770, when British troops fired into a mob in Boston, Massachusetts, killing several colonists, including Crispus Attucks. The incident started when a teenage boy named Edward Garrick insulted Captain John Goldfinch.
On the night of March 5, 1770, a man and a British sentry exchanged heated words in Boston, Massachusetts. Within minutes, three people lay dead in the snow and several others were injured, two fatally.
The Boston Massacre refers to the shooting deaths of five civilians by British soldiers in 1770. More than 1,500 soldiers had been garrisoned in Boston since late 1768, proving a source of frustration and annoyance for many locals.
Boston Massacre, Skirmish on March 5, 1770, between British troops and a crowd in Boston. After provocation by the colonists, British soldiers fired on the mob and killed five men, including Crispus Attucks.
On the evening of 5 March 1770, a confrontation between British soldiers and a boisterous crowd in front of the Custom House on King Street in Boston, Massachusetts had deadly results and the event quickly became known as the "Boston Massacre." In its aftermath, the commander of the 29th Regiment, Captain Thomas Preston, as well as the eight ...
On March 5, 1770, seven British soldiers fired into a crowd of volatile Bostonians, killing five, wounding another six, and angering an entire colony. The event, known as the Boston Massacre, did not happen in an isolated vacuum, but it occurred as a result of growing tensions between Boston colonists and English Parliament.
On March 5, 1770, a group of British soldiers open fired on a group of Boston citizens, killing five. This event, the Boston Massacre, was one in a series of crises that led many American colonists to choose independence from Great Britain five years later.