Boston+Massacre

It all started on the evening of March 5, 1770. Then a young wingsmakers apperentice named Edward Garrick called out to a british officer Captain Lieutenant John Goldfinch The Boston Massacre was a a accident that involved the killing of five citizins by the british army which started the rebellion in the british colonies.

In a pamphlet it said: "This horrid massacre in Boston perpetrated in the evening of the fifth day of March by solider of twenty- nine regiment with which the fourteenth regiment were then quartered there; with some observation on the state of things prior to that catastrophe."

How the whole thing started is that sixty people gathered in the middle of town then started to pelt the solider with (and I think this is kind of funny) snowballs. Then guns were shoot and eleven people were injured or died. One man named Cispus Attucks (who was the first person to be killed) hit a british solider then the rest of the british solider then killed attucks and killed five other men in the massacre. After the massacre captain preston and his troops were arrested and were schduled for court at the suffork county court. One of the things that I think is wierd is that John Adams (Who will become a patriot and the second president of the united states) was a defense attorney for the british soliders that were sent to court.

The Boston Massacre was one of the first time that the colonists steped up to the british. There were nine soliders on the day of the boston massacre. In many paitings there are only eight soliders. (As seen in the three pictures above.)

In the first picture above that is was made by Paul Revere it was called. "The Bloody Massacre Pertrated on Kings Street." Twenty five days before the massacre five men were shot and killed by British Soliders.