As Edward Garrick lay injured on King Street after an encounter with British soldiers, word began to spread like a wildfire throughout Boston. Already enraged by heavy taxation and the presence of royal troops alone, a crowd of rowdy protesters formed and began shouting at the soldiers. As the protest escalated, the British soldiers fired into the crowd killing five men. This single event known as the “The Bloody Massacre perpetrated in King Street”, later be dubbed “The Boston Massacre”, would
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Boston Massacre: Murder or Self Defense In 1770, a bloody massacre of five deaths took place on the cold streets of Boston. Nine soldiers including their captain were in King street, in Boston, when a young drunk lad went up to one of the soldiers. The soldier hit the young lad and he ran off into the same pub he had gotten drunk in to tell everyone else about the soldiers up in King street. A huge mob of colonists went to the soldiers and started throwing items like rocks, snowballs and sticks
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of this poem is that Paul Revere acted alone. This statement is false, there were more people than just Paul riding that night. One reason Longfellow wrote this in his poem could be to make it simple. If one thinks about it, it will make sense, because riding through three towns alone is hard
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In the engraving, Paul Revere added the British organized in their fire with brutal intent. However, in the actual story, the British were being poked and prodded into shooting by all of the colonists that were present. Also, Paul Revere took out the 200 colonists that had been surrounding and tormenting the soldiers. He did this so everyone that wasn’t there could not see that
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Paul Revere helped early America in many ways and needs more recognition for some of the great things he did. Some of the great things he did include, all his work as a gold and silversmith, the many rides he took to spread information about the British, and his work with the sons of liberty. Paul is recognized for many things, but is his work with silver and gold isn't as popular of a fact as some others. He started learning how to do was make things out of gold and silver at the young
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The Boston Massacre was a very tragic event that happened on March 5, 1770. It is a very important part of our history today. The Boston massacre was about the colonists and british throwing and firing things at each other, because the colonists started the event by breaking away from England and throwing objects at the British soldiers, and the British soldiers took it seriously and thought that they were declared to fight back. I think that the Boston Massacre happened as an accident. I believe
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The colonists had reported seeing the troops parading the streets with their weapons drawn. The British troops had struck unarmed colonists with their weapons and many say that is what created more tension between the colonists and the troops then there was before. The colonists were tired of the way they were being
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The Boston Massacre was a horrifying event that took place on March 5, 1770, killing 5 people 2 on accident, and 3 died on the spot. The causes of the Boston Massacre in 1770 were to enforce unpopular taxation measures passed by a British parliament that lacked American representation, an angry mob of American colonists gathering and taunting British soldiers, and the British reaction. The British weren’t welcomed at all that’s when the riot began. Fifty citizens attacked a British sentinel, objects
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Colonists being injured, killed, or merely living in fear of the Redcoats, general bloodshed everywhere: these are but a few results of the Boston Massacre. A failed rebellion in which only five of our fellow colonists were killed. You may think five is too small a number to take this as a definite defeat but will we just wait until more of our own have been murdered? If we had such a dramatic loss in something not even considered a battle, then imagine how many lives will be lost in a war. Even
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On March 5, 1770, in the city of Boston, Massachusetts, an angry mob of Americans gathered in front of the town's Customs Office and began harassing the British soldiers that were on guard duty. “British Captain Thomas Preston, the commanding officer at the Customs House, ordered his men to fix their bayonets and join the guard outside the building.” Rather than backing down, the livid patriots reacted violently and began throwing snowballs and other objects at the British regulars. Private Hugh
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