The Bloody Massacre Perpetrated in Kings Street Boston On March 5Th 1770 By a Party of the 29Th Regiment

Credit: Library of Congress Media type: engraving Museum Number: LC-USZC4-4600 Annotation: This engraving by Paul Revere depicts the Boston Massacre of 1770. British soldiers under Captain Thomas Preston fired on a Boston crowd, killing five and wounding six. In a subsequent trial, in which John Adams defended the soldiers, all but two of the soldiers were acquitted of murder.…

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