1770 CE

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Masacre de Boston

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The Boston Massacre, known in Great Britain as the Incident on King Street, was a confrontation on March 5, 1770 during the American Revolution in Boston, in what was then the colony of the Province of Massachusetts Bay. In the confrontation, nine British soldiers shot several in a crowd, estimated between 300 and 400, who were harassing them verbally and throwing various projectiles. Five American colonists were killed.

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Boston Massacre high-resEngrav'd Printed Sold by Paul Revere Boston. The print was copied by Revere from a design by Henry Pelham for an engraving eventually published under the title "The Fruits of Arbitrary Power, or the Bloody Massacre," of which only two impressions could be located by Brigham. Revere's print appeared on or about March 28, 1770.Public domainWikimedia Commons
The Boston Massacre, or, The Bloody Massacre perpetrated in King Street, Boston on March 5, 1770 by a party of the 29th RegimentPaul Revere Jr.CC0The Met
massacre from "History of Middlesex County, Massachusetts ... Illustrated".The British LibraryPublic domainEuropeana
map from "History of the Boston Massacre, March 5, 1770, consisting of the narrative of the town, the trial of the soldiers, and a historical introduction containing unpublished documents of John Adams, etc".The British LibraryPublic domainEuropeana

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