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Boston Massacre
Title: Boston Massacre
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 1005 | Pages: 4.3 (approximately 235 words/page)
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre is considered by many historians to be the first battle of the Revolutionary War. The fatal incident happened on March 5 of 1770. The massacre resulted in the death of five colonists. British troops in the Massachusetts Bay Colony were there to stop demonstrations against the Townshend Acts and keep order, but instead they provoked outrage. The British soldiers and citizens brawled in streets and fought in bars. “The citizens viewed the British soldiers …showed first 75 words of 1005 total…
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I feel the verdict of the trial of the Boston Massacre should have been “guilty”. The victims were unarmed and brutally murdered. I soldier enraged the citizens and were guilty of many other crimes. The order to fire give from Preston proves he’s guilty of the crime of manslaughter. My conclusion is that the soldiers and/or Preston are guilty. “Half a pale of blood had been spilled into he snow” (Mahin 2).
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