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10 Interesting Facts about the Boston Massacre
One of these following facts about the Boston Massacre should probably give you much information about this massacre. The Boston Massacre was an incident on March 1770, in which British Army soldiers killed five male civilians and injured six others. British troops had been stationed in Boston, capital of the Province of Massachusetts Bay, since 1786 in order to protect and support crown-appointed colonial officials attempting to enforce unpopular Read More ... »
10 Interesting Facts about the Boston Tea Party
These following facts about the Boston Tea Party might probably give you you much information about this “party”. Actually, the Boston Tea Party was apolitical protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, on December 16, 1773. The demonstrators, some disguised as American Indians, destroyed an entire shipment of tea sent by the East India Company, in defiance of the Tea Act of May 10, 1773. They boarded the ships and threw the chests of tea Read More ... »