mar 5, 1770 - Boston Massacre
Description:
On the same day that Parliament repealed most of the Townshend Acts, some Bostonians and redcoats had a scuffle by the tax-collector’s house. The angry Bostonians were throwing ice and rocks and calling the soldiers names, such as lobsterbacks. The soldiers held their ground and didn’t fire. Then, somebody said fire. No one knows who, but in the end 5 colonists were dead, and others wounded. Paul Revere made an engraving about this event, which shows armed redcoats firing at defenceless, unarmed colonists, which is a sign of propaganda. This scuffle is the sign that tempers were flaring in the New World…Added to timeline:
Date:
mar 5, 1770
Now
~ 255 years ago