In this drawing, we sided with the British by saying how they were not shooting at the colonists, how the colonists were hitting them, and how they were throwing snowballs at the British. In the article by Thomas Preston, he describes how he was standing in front of the army troop, so it wouldn’t make sense for him to tell his men to fire because it would be easy to get shot. Furthermore, he wrote how he was having a conversation with someone and you can’t say two different words at once, so he wouldn’t have been able to tell his men to fire while he was speaking. Additionally, Thomas Preston described how their men had been attacked by the colonists with heavy clubs and snowballs. In the article Boston Gazette, the colonists admit to throwing