On February 22, 1770, an 11-year-old boy ... John Adam's cousin and a leader of the revolutionary movement, immediately christened the event the "Boston Massacre." The bloody event galvanized ...

This Saturday, April 19, marks 250 years since the start of the Revolutionary ... 1770, emotions bubbled over. Boston locals and English troops got into a confrontation, leading to the Boston ...

1766 National Museum of American History Pamphlet, Townshend's Revenue Act, 1767 National Museum of African American History and Culture Boston Massacre, March 5th, 1770 ...

Crispus Attucks is believed to be the first casualty of the American Revolution ... What would soon be known as the Boston Massacre started with a minor dispute: On the evening of March 5, 1770, a ...

Massachusetts is marking the start of the American Revolution 250 years ago with ... later enlisted and fought in Dorchester Heights in Boston, fought in Fort Ticonderoga, and then after the ...

Through his work, Revere made connections with Boston’s elite — relationships that would later serve him well during the American Revolution ... on March 5, 1770, British soldiers fired ...

This is “The Bloody Massacre,” Paul Revere’s famous depiction of the Boston Massacre in 1770. It was an image that helped ... down a lot of the ideas that became the basis for the American Revolution.

The Dubois County Chapter of the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution hosted its annual Youth Awards Reception on Tuesday, April 15, 2025, at the Jasper High School Community Room.

In the years following the Boston Massacre, playwright Mercy Otis Warren wrote that "No previous outrage had given a general alarm, as the commotion on the fifth of March, 1770." Although the ...