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Anonymous account of the Boston Massacre March 5 1770 … The officer on guard was Capt. Preston, who with seven or eight soldiers, with fire-arms and charged bayonets, issued from the guardhouse, and in great haste posted himself and his soldiers in front of the Custom House, near the corner aforesaid. In
Anonymous Account of the Boston Massacre. March 5, 1770. THE HORRID MASSACRE IN BOSTON, PERPETRATED IN THE EVENING OF THE FIFTH DAY OF MARCH, 1770, BY SOLDIERS OF THE TWENTY-NINTH REGIMENT WHICH WITH THE FOURTEENTH REGIMENT WERE THEN QUARTERED THERE; WITH SOME OBSERVATIONS ON THE STATE OF THINGS PRIOR TO THAT CATASTROPHE.
The horrid Massacre in BOSTON, PERPETRATED In the Evening of the Fifth Day of March, 1770, BY Soldiers of the XXIXth Regiment ; WHICH WITH the XIVth Regiment Were then Quartered there ; WITH SOME OBSERVATIONS ON THE STATE OF THINGS PRIOR TO THAT CATASTROPHE. Printed by Order of the Town of BOSTON, And Sold by EDES and GILL, in Queen-Street,
Captain Preston's account of the Boston Massacre March 5 1770 There also is an anonymous account of the Boston Massacre, which takes a rather different point of view It is [a] matter of too great notoriety to need any proofs that the arrival of his Majesty's troops in Boston was extremely obnoxious to its inhabitants.
This incident was called the Boston Massacre. The British officers involved were arrested for murder by the colonial government in Boston. The officers pleaded self-defense, and the jury agreed. They were not charged with murder. However, two British soldiers were charged with manslaughter. Their hands were branded, burned, and then they were ...
During the Boston Tea Party, a mob of angry people threw tea into Boston Harbor. Let's look back to 1773 to find out what led to this historical event. Create an account
“The Bloody Massacre Perpetrated in King-Street Boston on March 5th 1770 by a Party of the 29th Regt.” Paul Revere, 1770. Courtesy of Yale University Art Gallery. The image above is probably the most famous image of the Boston Massacre. It was engraved by Paul Revere about two weeks after the Boston Massacre occurred.
