. The first American Civil War, first period 1775-1778, with chapters on the continental or revolutionary army and on the forces of the crown . treated the assailants to goquietly home. At length one of the soldiers receiving a violentblow on the arm, either voluntarily or involuntarily fired hismusket though with no effect, and the mob thinking that thesoldiers were loaded with powder, only grew bolder and moreviolent, till at last either in desperation or in bewilderment atthe eternal cry of fire ! all round them, seven of the men didfire without orders, killing four men outright, and woundi
. The first American Civil War, first period 1775-1778, with chapters on the continental or revolutionary army and on the forces of the crown . treated the assailants to goquietly home. At length one of the soldiers receiving a violentblow on the arm, either voluntarily or involuntarily fired hismusket though with no effect, and the mob thinking that thesoldiers were loaded with powder, only grew bolder and moreviolent, till at last either in desperation or in bewilderment atthe eternal cry of fire ! all round them, seven of the men didfire without orders, killing four men outright, and woundingseven more, two of them mortally. The blame of the blood-shed rests wholly with the magistrates of Boston.^ ^ J. W. Fortescue, History of the British Army, iii. 37. For thecasualties, Mr. Fortescue follows probably The short Narrative of T II E FRUITS O !• Arbitrary Power . or the BLOODY MASSACRE, Perpetrated in Kiiig-ftrcct, Boflon, in a [ari\ o\ llic XXIXtli K. -i. ,, ,(:,,!,:i, \ I , ( n ,. ,i SI.; otlK-rs WLTt woiniila), two ol iIkhi f ( .In liiMplu, ,;. .ii,.l j KctiiE>«^ From Bingleys reprint of Narrciti-ves of Horrid Miissacir at Boston, March 5, 177c ,11 THE STORM CENTRE, BOSTON loi Such an outbreak of violence culminating in blood-shed presents in itself no features unusual in similarunhappy events, which in the cities of the world haveagain and again marked the antipathies of civilian andsoldier. But this particular act of mob violence hadfar-reaching effects. Some philosopher has remarkedthat mob violence is just as much a factor or co-efficientof historical action as any other activity, and that occa-sionally it is the only means of getting through diffi-culties. An extraordinary use was made of this seriesof street outrages. As Mr. Lecky has pointed out,there have been many massacres in Europe. Therewas the Spanish Fury in Antwerp, the Massacre of , the Sack of Madgeburg, t
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