March 5, 1770

Boston "Massacre"

In Boston, a violent crowd assaults a group of soldiers with missiles of ice and rocks several days after an 11-year-old boy is killed by a Boston importer. The soldiers open fire on the crowd, killing five men. Boston radicals succeed in portraying the event as a "massacre," even though it appears to generate little comment in the other colonies, particularly those in the south.

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