The stone cobbles marking the spot of the Boston Massacre on 5th March 1770, outside the Old State House, Boston. MA.
The stone cobbles marking the spot of the Boston Massacre on 5th March 1770, outside the Old State House, Boston. MA. The Boston Massacre refers to an incident involving the deaths of five civilians (Three Americans—ropemaker Samuel Gray, mariner James Caldwell, and an African American sailor named Crispus Attucks— died instantly. Seventeen-year-old Samuel Maverick, struck by a ricocheting musket ball at the back of the crowd, died a few hours later, in the early morning of the next day. Thirty-year-old Irish immigrant Patrick Carr died two weeks later) at the hands of British troops on March 5, 1770, the legal aftermath of which helped spark the rebellion in some of the British colonies in America which culminated in the American Revolution. A tense situation due to a heavy British military presence in Boston boiled over to incite brawls between soldiers and civilians, and eventually led to troops discharging their muskets after being attacked by a rioting crowd. Three civilians were killed at the scene of the shooting, and two died after the incident, (notes taken from Wikipedia)
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Location: Old State House, Boston, MA, United States
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