The Boston Massacre

The Boston Massacre Washington is  a street fight that occurred on March 5, 1770. This fight was between a group of drunk civilians and a squad of British soldiers. This massacre is also called the "Incident on King Street". This group of drunk civilians were throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks at the soldiers. The British army soldiers killed five civilian men and injured six others. This event is widely view as a foreshadow of the American Revolutionary War.

Since 1768, the crown sent a group of soldiers to the colonies in order to protect them. There was some bad tension between soldiers and civilians since soldiers had to live in the civilian houses according to the order gave by the king. A group of drunk civilians started to verbal abuse of the British soldiers. One of the soldiers fired them and eventually he was supported by seven additional soldiers. All of them were victims of verbal abuse and objects were thrown onto them. Even though the soldiers were not ordered to fired, they did it. All of these soldiers were arrested and charged of murdered.

John Adams was the lawyer and defender of the soldiers that were charged of murdered. Six of the soldiers were acquitted, while two others were convicted of manslaughter and given reduce sentence. The sentence that these two men received was a branding on their hand. This massacre is mostly remembered because of the death of Crispus Attucks, an African man. The death of this man was the best opportunity to demonstrate the role of African Americans in the Revolutionary War. In 1888, a monument was done on the Boston Common in honor of the men killed on that massacre.