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    The Boston Massacre (known in Great Britain as the Incident on King Street) was a confrontation in Boston on March 5, 1770, in which nine British soldiers...
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    The Boston Chinatown massacre or Tyler Street Massacre was a gang-related shooting in which five men were killed execution-style in a Boston Chinatown...
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    quotations related to Massacre. The shortened name "Boston massacre" was in use by the early 1800s(Austin 1803, p. 314) The term "Massacre Day" for the annual...
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    The Boston Massacre Monument, also known as the Crispus Attucks Monument and Victory, is an outdoor bronze memorial by Adolph Robert Kraus, installed...
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    the Boston Massacre (1770), the Boston Tea Party (1773), Paul Revere's Midnight Ride (1775), the Battle of Bunker Hill (1775), and the Siege of Boston (1775–1776)...
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    The Boston Marathon bombing, sometimes referred to as just simply the Boston bombing, was a domestic terrorist attack that took place during the annual...
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    Crispus Attucks (category Boston Massacre)
    descent, who is traditionally regarded as the first person killed in the Boston Massacre, and as a result the first American killed in the American Revolution...
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  • Edward Garrick (category Boston Massacre)
    wigmaker's apprentice and resident of Boston, Massachusetts, who is known for instigating the Boston Massacre on March 5, 1770. Not much is known about...
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  • Thomas Preston (British Army officer) (category Boston Massacre)
    British military officer who served in Boston, Massachusetts. He commanded the troops involved in the Boston Massacre in 1770 and was tried for murder, but...
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  • Hugh Montgomery (British Army soldier) (category Boston Massacre)
    soldier who served in the 29th Regiment of Foot and was present at the Boston Massacre, for which he was found guilty of the manslaughter of one of the five...
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  • Matthew Kilroy (British Army soldier) (category Boston Massacre)
    soldier who served in the 29th Regiment of Foot and was present at the Boston Massacre, for which he was found guilty of the manslaughter of one of the five...
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    there ... the child independence was born." On March 5, 1770, the Boston Massacre occurred in front of the building on Devonshire Street. Lieutenant...
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    defended British soldiers against murder charges arising from the Boston Massacre. Adams was a Massachusetts delegate to the Continental Congress and...
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  • Massacre Day was a holiday in Boston, Massachusetts, from 1771 to 1783. It was held on March 5, the anniversary of the 1770 Boston Massacre. Each year...
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  • Christopher Seider (category Boston Massacre)
    the Boston Massacre are buried nearby. Seider's killing and large public funeral fueled public outrage, which reached a peak in the Boston Massacre 11...
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    The Boston Tea Party was an American political and mercantile protest on December 16, 1773, by the Sons of Liberty in Boston in colonial Massachusetts...
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    newspapers. Opponents of the Acts gradually became violent, leading to the Boston Massacre of 1770. The Acts placed an indirect tax on glass, lead, paints, paper...
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  • The Kent State shootings (also known as the May 4 massacre and the Kent State massacre) were the killing of four and wounding of nine unarmed college students...
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  • mid-30s known for his dedication to the law and justice. After the Boston Massacre happens, Adams arrives at the scene and is subsequently sought as a...
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    George III deployed troops to Boston. A local fracas resulted in the troops killing protesters in the Boston Massacre on March 5, 1770. The Thirteen...
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  • Flat Track Derby Association (WFTDA). The league's all-star team, the Boston Massacre, was one of the top 25 WFTDA Division 1 teams in the world through...
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    because British soldiers had been given a fair trial following the Boston Massacre in 1770. The Quartering Act, which applied to all British colonies...
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    Burying Ground Boston Latin School Site/Statue of Benjamin Franklin Old Corner Bookstore Old South Meeting House Old State House Boston Massacre Site Faneuil...
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    troops arrived in the city of Boston and occupied the city. Tensions led to the Boston Massacre on March 5, 1770, and the Boston Tea Party on December 16,...
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    Empire, Boston Massacre, Haymarket Massacre, Banana Massacre, Hungarian Revolution of 1956, Kent State Shootings, Soweto Uprising, Sharpeville massacre, Mendiola...
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    colonists and Crown officials, particularly given that it had followed the Boston Massacre in 1770. Crown officials in Rhode Island aimed to increase their control...
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  • Mass shootings in the United States Freedmen massacres A Fair Account of the Late Unhappy Disturbance at Boston. London: B. White. 1770. p. 3. ISBN 9780665204395...
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    on Flag Staff Hill in the Common, commemorating Civil War dead. The Boston Massacre Monument was dedicated November 14, 1888. The Oneida Football Club...
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  • The Pottawatomie massacre occurred on the night of May 24–25, 1856, in the Kansas Territory, United States. In reaction to the sacking of Lawrence by pro-slavery...
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    Samuel Adams (category Boston Latin School alumni)
    non-cooperation prompted the occupation of Boston by British soldiers, eventually resulting in the Boston Massacre of 1770. Adams and his colleagues devised...
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