The Boston Massacre - March 5, 1770
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The Boston Massacre was the killing of five colonists by British regulars on March 5, 1770. A squad of British soldiers came to support a sentry who was being pressed by a heckling, snowballing crowd. In the process, there were shots fired. Three people were killed immediately and two died later of the wounds. One victim was Crispus Atucks, a man of black or Indian lineage. The British officer in charge, Captain Thomas Preston, was asrrested for manslaughter. along with eight of his men. (History.com, 2012) It was the culmination of tensions in the American colonies that had been growing since Royal troops first appeared in Massachusetts in October 1768 to enforce the heavy tax burden imposed by the Townshend Acts.