The Boston Massacre
by Hiller B. Zobel
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A history of the Boston Massacre, a prelude to the Revolutionary War that occurred on March 5, 1770 when British troops, stationed in the colony to discourage dissent, fired into a crowd of demonstrators, killing five colonists and resulting in the murder trials of several soldiers.Tags
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- Canonical title
- The Boston Massacre
- Original publication date
- 1970
- Important places
- Boston, Massachusetts, USA; Massachusetts, USA (Colonial Massachusetts)
- Important events
- Boston Massacre (1770)
- Epigraph
- For E.J.B. and H.Z.
- Disambiguation notice
- 1970: The Boston massacre, by Hiller B. Zobel.
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