The Boston Massacre, also known as the Incident on King Street, March 5, 1770, when British soldiers shot several civilians. The incident was one catalyst which helped turn colonial opinion against the British crown and precipitated eventual armed confrontation against British rule during the American Revolution. After a contemporary engraving by Paul Revere.

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