On March 5, 1770, tensions between Boston colonists and occupying British soldiers boiled over and a riot broke out, resulting in the shooting deaths of several patriots. Among them; Samuel Gray, Samuel Maverick, James Caldwell, and a former slave turned sailor named Crispus Attucks.

The event spawned a trial, in which the British soldiers were represented by future President John Adams and eventually acquitted and released.

'The Bloody Massacre in King-Street' as it was then known, was one of the main precursors to the Revolutionary War!

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