The Boston Massacre March 5, 1770, British soldiers fired upon a mob of rowdy crowd of colonists. This event, officially named the Boston Massacre, killed 5 colonists. The British soldiers not only fired without order, but fired without order on an unarmed crowd, unless you consider stones and snowballs ‘armed’. The British fired without order from a captain, or a commander. In fact, their Captain, Thomas Preston was not on sight when the attack occurred and had to travel to the section of soldiers, as stated in his own testimony. Preston also wrote, that only strong language was used in the beginning. Also, the firing was not all at once, but rather of one gun, then two, three, then finally five, as stated by Benjamin Frizell, a man that
