boston massacre?
the Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was not part of a diabolical plan. The soldiers fired in response to the crowd. The crowd gathered as part of a spontaneous protest. It was an Accident of History.
It wasn't. It was an event in Boston where British soldiers fired on colonist. The history channel has a good program on this.
The Boston massacre was not actually a massacre. The citizens of Boston taunted the soldiers of Britain and then a shot was fired. No one knows who fired the first shot. But the soldiers shot and had killed five civilians. The first gunshot was also known as "The shot heard around the world".
The name Boston Massacre not accurately describe what happened because it wasn't really a massacre. It is likely that the soldiers were cornered and threatened by a mob and fired in self defense. They were tried and acquitted.
James Caldwell was killed in the Boston Massacre when two bullets fired by British soldiers hit him in the back. It is said he died almost instantly. Little else is known about him other than he was a mate of the Captain Morton vessel.
A group of gunshots could be a volley, or a fusillade.
The answer is a volley
The Boston Massacre was an event between town men and British soldier's. the soldiers were being betrayed by the town men and the British soldiers got aggvated and fired shots. poop
the boston massacre was when british soldiers were positioned in the colonies and colonists didnt want them there. colonists started poking them and hitting them with sticks so they fired their muskets, killing 5 people
no one did. The boston Massacre happened in new England not in England. Now if you asked who stopped the British soldiers from massacring british citizens living in north america at the time the answer would be no one. They fired into a crowd.