The “Boston Massacre” of 1770 seems proof of that portrayal, even if not quite in the melodramatic terms of Patriot Joseph Warren, who at the second annual commemoration in 1772 recalled ...

A lithograph based on W. L. Champney's illustration of the Boston Massacre. The image focuses on Crispus Attucks, who appears in the center, club in hand, holding the barrel of a British soldier's ...

Solemn ceremonies and a protest marked the 250th anniversary Thursday of the massacre in Boston that helped spark the Revolutionary War. A wreath was laid at the grave of the five victims of the ...

The Boston Massacre is etched in our mindset because of an etching that stands as an indisputable example of 1770-style “fake news." The engraving by Paul Revere, which showed British soldiers ...

Engraving by Paul Revere. Title: “The Bloody Massacre Perpetrated in King Street, Boston on March 5th 1770 by a Party of the 29th Regiment.” Library of Congress ...

Thursday marks the 250th anniversary of the Boston Massacre, the pivotal and tragic event on March 5, 1770, when British soldiers shot and killed five men, outraging colonists and hastening the ...

September 28, 2019 | Part Of Emerging Revolutionary War Symposium Boston and the Road to Revolution, 1770-1775 ...

Most schoolchildren hopefully have at least an idea that the first victim of the Boston Massacre — the March 5, 1770 incident between British soldiers and an angry Boston crowd that was one of ...

As the 250th anniversary of the Boston Massacre nears, several events are being held to remember the fatal violence of March 5, 1770, a milestone on the country’s road to independence.