You can still see the spot. If you take the Freedom Trail tour in Boston, a uniformed park ranger will let you stand right on the spot where five Americans were killed by British soldiers on the night of March 5, 1770. This bloody encounter came to be known as “The Boston Massacre.” That fateful and fatal clash happened 250 years ago today. However, the fuse that set off that powder keg was lit a couple of years before that night. Here’s the part of the story that is rarely told. For years prior to the massacre, animosity toward the British by the colonists had been growing. The British...
250th Anniversary of the Boston Massacre
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