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Boston Massacre
Boston Massacre, March 5, 1770. Copy of
chromolithograph by John Bufford after William L. Champey,
1856. The Boston Massacre encounter occurred on March 5,
1770, between British troops and a group of Boston
citizens during a demonstration. When a squad of British
soldiers was struck by objects thrown by the colonists,
they fired into the crowd and killed five men, including
Crispus Attucks, who was leading the group. Many
historians believe that Crispus Attucks was a runaway
slave. In 1888 a monument was erected to honor Attucks and
the others who died in the Boston Massacre. |
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