The Boston Massacre was an accident in the beginning, but it continued to go on until it reached an extent where it could be an accident no longer. The real question is when did this accident start, and when did it get too far? Some say it should have never happened. others say it was the start of the revolution.
Captain Thomas Preston was a British officer stationed in Massachusetts staying in a home with other soldiers under the Quartering Act. They were banging on things with clubs yelling “Fire if you dare”. Yelling, screaming throwing snowballs, ice, coming at his soldiers with stick, buckets, clubs, and anything that they could get their hands on. His men would need to fire under his call, one man got hit by stick wobble to and side and his gun went off. Immediately after 4 of the men heard the crowd shouting fire and
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Newton Prince was a African American businessman. Men came to his house yelling “fire, fire”, he asked if it was a house on fire, they said no something even better. Newton went out to the massacre and met people that had “clubs, buckets, bags,snowballs,and sticks”. A lot of people were yelling “fire” and so he could see how it could be confusing for actual command. There are also many sticks that we 're hitting the bayonet and most of them could have been set off because of that. The soldiers may have felt threatened but the only thing that was really coming at them with snowballs. Newton makes a good point about how many sticks hit bayonet and yelling of fire could have think confusing but in the end they were only really being hit with snowballs and sticks.
Yes there was proof of weapons other than snowballs but they were not in use. The Boston Massacre was very chaotic people yelling fire, running around, protesting and all out causing confusion and chaos. The only thing that was really threatening the soldiers or snowballs. So there was really no reason for the british to fire, starting the Rebellion and American
Fire, damn you! Suddenly the line of British muskets exploded to flame…” Then he Battle of concord on page 278 it stated, “Suddenly there was a burst of fire, and it was not the rebel’s nit was Laurie’s’ men… The rebels fired a second time with more precision still, but then all order was gone, the scene engulfed in vast fog, shouts and screams blending with hard pops and chatter of the muskets. Too many still moving away, pursued by their own shock, the awful horror of the unexpected, leaving their own dead and wounded behind.”
and that was how passage two made it seem older instead of saying it was older. In passage one nothing was really explained but in passage two it was explained better. In passage two said how the young men were rude and ended up with multiple people throwing ice and snowballs at the soldiers. Passage two states “The young men, being boston boys, felt as if they had a right to walk their own streets, without being accountable to a british red-coat, even though he challenged them in King George's name.
General Howe stated “It took them a night to build that yet it would of taken my men a month to build it”. He realized that the patriots were desperate to build such a fortification and they must of been running out of ammunition and troops. The British troops with fixed bayonets attacked the hill and had to retreat back to the bottom of the hill. The British troops regrouped after the retreat and charged two more times up the hill. The patriots began to run low on ammunition and some began to retreat from the hill.
Within the night of October 2nd, the British let open a wave of fire to cover up for the movements of their calvary by the infantry men because they were trying to forge for food. This quickly escalated to them losing 50 men. On October 14th, Washington decided launch an attack on the British with the French following 30 minutes later, this was the bombardment. That night at around 6:30pm gunfire was heard symbolizing the start of the attack. Some movements looked as if there was an attack on Yorktown itself, which freaked the British out.
In 1770, there were 4,000 red coats roaming the streets of Boston. As a result of the Great Awakening in the 1730s-40s, the highly spiritual colonists had a strong dislike for the bad behavior of the red coats. This caused what is known as the Boston Massacre. The Boston Massacre was the first extremely violent encounter between the British and the colonists with shots fired from the red coats. Oddly enough, this resulted in a period of calm.
The colonials were upset because of ridiculous taxing, which imposed by the British government. The colonist’s response to the situation was boycotting the goods. And so the British government dispatched thousand of troops in Boston, which created a tension between the colonists and the military. On March 5, 1770, the British troops gathered at the custom house in order to protect it. There was a strong resentment in the crowd, as they harassed the troops.
First of all, the Boston Massacre occurred on March 5th, 1770. An out of control and snowballing crowd caused British soldiers to support an overwhelmed post. These soldiers took matters into their own hands and opened fire on the colonists. Therefore, three colonists immediately
In 1770, the first real battle between the colonists and British soldiers took place in Boston, Massachusetts. An armed clash like this was waiting to happen from the moment the British troops arrived in Boston. Brawls were a common occurrence between the British soldiers and the colonists, who were constantly taunting and insulting the troops. The Boston Massacre started when a crowd of about 60 colonists surrounded the British soldiers guarding the customs house.
They also didn 't have previous intentions of going against the colonists. They were voyaging over to Lexington, and got
There were constant fights breaking out between the colonists and the soldiers. On the evening of March 5, 1770, Private Hugh White was harassed by a crowd after defending a British officer. The crowd had White backed against a building and began throwing snowballs and ice at him as well as threatening his life. White called for help, and Captain Thomas Preston arrived with seven other soldiers. Soon there was a crowd of 300-400 colonists around these men, continuing to jeer them and throw things.
“FIRE, FIRE, DAMN YOU, FIRE! I DARE YOU!” yelled the colonists on the street as they threw snowballs, rocks, shells and clubs at the British soldiers. This was the beginning of what was called the Boston Massacre, it occurred on the night of March 5th, 1770. On this night, five men and boys were killed because of the confusion between the soldiers and the colonists.
The Boston Massacre: Provoked Self-Defense or Justified Riot Met With Bloodshed The Boston Massacre was one of the main events that changed the course of history. The Boston Massacre occurred when a riot of Boston citizens met the a squadron of British soldiers with snowballs, sticks, and stones. Thomas Preston, the Caption of the squadron, called more officers for support. The mob attacked these soldiers as well, and the soldiers started firing upon the Boston colonists.
If the following events didn’t take place we wouldn’t have America. In my opinion the Boston Massacre was one of the very main causes to why the Road to Revolution took place. The reason I believe this was an important cause because it was, “ the first episode which resulted in the loss of life.” It is stated that, “Four Bostonians were killed when Redcoats fired into an angry mob.”
The Boston Massacre was a street fight that occurred on March 5, 1770, between a “patriot”. They were throwing sticks, snowballs, and trash at a group of British troops. The loyalists got very annoyed with the patriots so they shot into the mob killing five. The riot began when around 50 colonists attacked a British sentinel. A British officer called in for additional troops
The Boston Massacre is an event most Americans and British students learn about over the course of their education. In America, we learn that British soldiers fired upon innocent civilians, although this may not have been the case. British historians have referred to the Boston Massacre as the "Incident on King Street". After looking over the "Captain Thomas Preston 's Account of the Boston Massacre", as well as "Boston Massacre Trial Depositions" I believe that American historians should refer to the "Boston Massacre" as the "Incident on King Street". The definition of a massacre refers to an unnecessary and random killing of a large number of individuals.