Some of the details that stick out to me about the imagery of the engraving are the dead colonist on the ground that the British happened to slaughter. The picture has a much deeper meaning than just another painting it develops the understanding in others that this was one of the main events that had lead up to the war. The dead bodies on the ground was only the beginning of many more to come that is also why I found that detail of the painting very significant. The chaos that this painting seems to portray is also another given example of the chaos that was soon to come with the beginning of the war. The engraving first appeared somewhere within the year of 1770 after the events of the Boston Massacre took place. The painting hit the markets
