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. |
