The Boston Massacre : A Fuse Lit
It all started on a day in spring. Tension was already creeping in the air, and someone was planning to use it to their advantage. A group of colonists launched an attack on a British sentinel, throwing nearly anything they could get into their hands at him. A group of nearby British soldiers fired into the mob killing 5 and injuring several others. Things of course, went downhill or uphill (depending on how you think of it) from there on. News, as it usually does spread through colonies at the speed of a running horse. It was thereon changed over the years from, "The Bloody Massacre in King Street." To, "The State Street Massacre" but eventually settled as, "The Boston Massacre."
Before any of all this had happened, anger had been brewing for say... about 2 years. The british in 1768 had been deployed there to enforce extremely hard taxes on the colonists, which of course didn't go too well. So think about it, all the stuff before, this, and then getting slaughtered? Basically like seeing if you can swing a lit torch over a bomb with make it explode. So then, on March 5, 1770 they lit the fuse.
And so, the news keeps spreading. So of course after all that anger, some death, and misery... the bomb blew. And once again as I said earlier you and I think of it as good, because we know the outcome but for the colonists, things might feel pretty risky. Thankyou to those brave colonists for getting out there and founding this country!
It all started on a day in spring. Tension was already creeping in the air, and someone was planning to use it to their advantage. A group of colonists launched an attack on a British sentinel, throwing nearly anything they could get into their hands at him. A group of nearby British soldiers fired into the mob killing 5 and injuring several others. Things of course, went downhill or uphill (depending on how you think of it) from there on. News, as it usually does spread through colonies at the speed of a running horse. It was thereon changed over the years from, "The Bloody Massacre in King Street." To, "The State Street Massacre" but eventually settled as, "The Boston Massacre."
Before any of all this had happened, anger had been brewing for say... about 2 years. The british in 1768 had been deployed there to enforce extremely hard taxes on the colonists, which of course didn't go too well. So think about it, all the stuff before, this, and then getting slaughtered? Basically like seeing if you can swing a lit torch over a bomb with make it explode. So then, on March 5, 1770 they lit the fuse.
And so, the news keeps spreading. So of course after all that anger, some death, and misery... the bomb blew. And once again as I said earlier you and I think of it as good, because we know the outcome but for the colonists, things might feel pretty risky. Thankyou to those brave colonists for getting out there and founding this country!