Boston_Massacre

=Boston Massacre=

On the evening of March 5, 1770, a crowd of about sixty townspeople began taunting and throwing snowballs at a squad of ten redcoats. The redcoats, nervous and provoked by the crowd, opened fire and killed or wounded eleven citizens. The first person to die was Crispus Attucks, a leader of the mob and an African American.



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