What are ways that Paul Revere's engraving distorted events to stir up anti-British feeling?

Answer 1

the captin did not order them to shot but they did, the event did not take place at butcher's hall but at bostons customs, there were only five dead not seven

Better answer

Reasons why

1. The print shows the British standing in a straight line firing at a peaceful crowd. In fact there was nothing organized about the episode and when the shots were fired both sides were involved in the free-for-all.

2. The incident took place at night, not during the day as the print suggests.

3. The print does not show the snow and ice on the ground which should have been there.

4. The man lying in the front is depicted as being white. But the figure is most probably that of Crispus Attuks, a black man who was the first to fall. Certainly there is no black man in the picture.

The errors were undoubtedly deliberate, in order to present the Americans in the most sympathetic light possible, and the British in the most tyrannous.

Answer 2

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