5 март 1770 г. - The Boston Massacre

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Sometimes cited as the first casualties in the American Revolution, five people died and six others were injured when British redcoats fired on a group of civilians harassing them by throwing snowballs and rocks.

Crispus Attucks, an African American seaman and escaped slave, is known as the first casualty of the American Revolution and the most well known casualty of the Boston Massacre. Not much else is known about him. The victims were honored as heroes and the massacre was immediately propagandized, especially by the Sons of Liberty, Sam Adams, and Paul Revere. Newspapers and pamphlets denouncing the soldiers' actions spread like wildfire. Both then and now, the Boston Massacre represented the growing distrust and volatility between the American colonists and British soldiers and was a major step towards revolution.

The British soldiers involved were arrested and brought to trial for murder. There, they were defended by John Adams, a known patriot. All were acquitted except two; their sentence was lowered to manslaughter.

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