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Boston's massacre /

On the night of March 5, 1770, British soldiers fired into a crowd gathered in front of Boston's Custom House, killing five people. Denounced as an act of unprovoked violence and villainy, the event that came to be known as the Boston Massacre is one of the most familiar incidents in American h...

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Main Author:	Hinderaker, Eric (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, Massachusetts : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, [2017]
Subjects:	Boston Massacre, 1770. United States > History > Revolution, 1775-1783 > Causes. Boston (Mass.) > History > Revolution, 1775-1783.

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