Regarding the Boston Massacre in 1770, a mob of colonists, some drunk and some not, surrounded a group of eight British soldiers. A fight broke out, and five colonists died. Many present at that night in the mob claimed that it was murder, how soldiers sent to protect them had killed their people. However, this is not the case. The so called “Boston Massacre” is not a massacre at all, in fact, it was an act of self defense. The soldiers were surrounded by a mob of colonists who were hitting them
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On the day March 5, 1770, five Boston colonists were shot and killed by British soldiers. This event is known as the Boston Massacre. The colonists killed were Crispus Attucks, Samuel Gray, James Caldwell, Samuel Maverick and Patrick Carr. This all started when a group of angry colonists started pestering and irritating a British Soldier. The colonist was throwing things such as sticks, snowballs, and rocks and other soldiers came for support. The soldiers that came for backup was Captain Preston
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On March 5, 1770, the infamous riot known as the Boston Massacre took place. The event took place during the snowy night where colonists gathered at the Customs House in Boston to taunt the British soldiers in front of the building. The mobs of people were protesting the occupation of British troops in the colonies. The article “Boston Massacre” written by History says “The British troops had been billeted in Boston in October 1768 after repeated requests from British customs officials, who had been
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The Boston Massacre that happened in March of 1770 during the Revolutionary war started with the boycott of British products that caused unemployment in Britain. Lord North sent British troops in the Massachusetts Bay Colony were there to stop the demonstrations against the Townshend Acts and keep order, instead it lead to the growing of mistrust between the British soldiers and the Americans. The soldiers were made fun of and heckled by the mobs because their uniform. Their presents provoked and
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“FIVE DEAD ON KING STREET! BRITISH SOULIDERS ARE MURDERS!” That is just some thing that would be yelled after the Boston Massacre. What is the Boston Massacre you may ask? It was soldiers taking self-defense and ending up as murders. The time is 1770; its still cold out and there is snow on the ground. A group of drunkards are looking for a fight when they see a British solider. They start to throw snow and get rowdy. The British solider hit one of them with the butt of his musket when he started
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This is Mr. Levinson, reporting live from the deadly Boston Massacre here on March 5 1770. We are here with the solders today that fired at colonist. We are retrieving different stories of what actually happened here that started this deadly incident. Basically what happened was that the solders herd the word ''FIRE'' and started to fire from their weapon at the colonist and several dead and injured. This is the intel that we are receiving right now. The British solders said that it was just an incident
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As a young child Olaudah Equiano and his sister were kidnapped from their home and taken to become slaves. They were just playing at their house waiting for their parents when they were taken. “ he and his sister were kidnapped while the adults in the fields.” This affected them because they were to have never been kidnapped they could have done amazing things. Both of them would have been able to read and write, but ironically Equiano is able to write as seen by this story. He was eventually separated
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only one exit, near the Golden Temple sacred to the Sikhs. Open fire ordered by British troops lasted for 10 minutes aimed towards the unarmed crowd, an estimate of 379 were killed and 1,200 people were wounded. The incident known as the Amritsar Massacre, caused a huge riot amongst nationalist demanding for the Independence of India. Such uproar led to events of civil disobedience, a display of public refusal against unjust law achieved by the act of nonviolence. Mohandas K. Gandhi, the man to lead
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Michael Ferrick 12/13/12 Prof. Steffek Hist 1301 The Boston Massacre in the eyes of the soldiers of the 29th Regiment What really happened during the Boston Massacre is still a mystery, as many people had a different view about what they saw. The Boston Massacre took place in Boston Massachusetts, on March 5th, 1770, by the French and Indian War. More specifically it happened on the corner of Devonshire St. and State St., in front of Boston’s customs house between the soldiers of the 29th
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Lessons Learned One thing that readers can take away from these stories is that you have to fight for what is right or for what you want. For example, in Of Plymouth Plantation the Pilgrims wanted to be able to practice their own beliefs so they went on a long and hard journey across the Atlantic to start a new and free life in America. The colonist almost didn’t make it but what kept them going was their dream of being able to live a life of freedom of religion. Another lesson that readers can
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