Also the Bostonians made it even worse by giving the british crude nicknames. Like “Lobster”and “Red Coat”. One of the soldiers started to fire at the colonist because they heard a faded sound in the background thinking the dim sound was “Fire” From his captain “Captain Preston”. So he started to fire. The soldiers thought it was a command and all soldiers started to fire. Five colonist were shot and died some others were injured. The men who died were Samuel Gray, James Caldwell, Crispus Attucks, Samuel Maverick and Patrick Carr.
What Is The Bloody Massacre Engraving?
The Bloody Massacre is an engraving by Paul Revere. Paul Revere drew this because he wanted to show the soldiers treating the colonist badly. This engraving was important because the engraving had so many mistakes. Paul Revere did this so it could pressed the cause of Independents. An example of a mistake on his engraving is their was a dog. Some historians think it might be a symbol that the soldiers were treating the colonist worse than dogs. Another mistake is the name of the buildings. One is called butchers hall in this engraving which is a mistake.
This engraving helped lead up to a trail. The trail was to determine if the Captain shouted “fire” or not. Still to this day we still don’t know what really