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The Boston Massacre (known in Great Britain as the Incident on King Street [1]) was a confrontation in Boston on March 5, 1770, in which nine British soldiers shot several of a crowd of three or four hundred who were harassing them verbally and throwing various projectiles. The event was heavily publicized as "a massacre" by leading Patriots ...
March 5, 1770 (approximately aged 47) Boston, Massachusetts Bay, British America. Occupation (s) Whaler, sailor, stevedore [1] Known for. Death in the Boston Massacre. Crispus Attucks ( c. 1723 – March 5, 1770) was an American whaler, sailor, and stevedore of African and Native American descent who is traditionally regarded as the first ...
Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Coordinates. 42°21′15″N 71°03′52″W / . 42.354284°N 71.064412°W. / 42.354284; -71.064412. The Boston Massacre Monument, also known as the Crispus Attucks Monument and Victory, is an outdoor bronze memorial by Adolph Robert Kraus, installed in Boston Common, in Boston, Massachusetts, United ...
Liberty Tree. The Liberty Tree (1646–1775) was a famous elm tree that stood in Boston, Massachusetts near Boston Common in the years before the American Revolution. In 1765, Patriots in Boston staged the first act of defiance against the British government at the tree. The tree became a rallying point for the growing resistance to the rule of ...
The Old South Meeting House is a historic Congregational church building located at the corner of Milk and Washington Streets in the Downtown Crossing area of Boston, Massachusetts, built in 1729. It gained fame as the organizing point for the Boston Tea Party on December 16, 1773. Five thousand or more colonists [2] gathered at the Meeting ...
The wildly popular self-guided Freedom Trail walking tour, which follows an actual red line drawn on city streets and sidewalks, has been leading tourists to the city’s most iconic historic ...
The committees of correspondence were a collection of American political organizations that sought to coordinate opposition to British Parliament and, later, support for American independence during the American Revolution. The brainchild of Samuel Adams, a Patriot from Boston, the committees sought to establish, through the writing of letters ...
The Siege of Boston (April 19, 1775 – March 17, 1776) was the opening phase of the American Revolutionary War. [5] In the siege, American patriot militia led by newly-installed Continental Army commander George Washington prevented the British Army, which was garrisoned in Boston, from moving by land. Both sides faced resource, supply, and ...