One fateful March night in Boston, Massachusetts 1770 five men were killed and six more were wounded. Dubbed The Boston Massacre by the Sons of Liberty, this event was built up to be much more than it really was. The soldiers were not guilty, but simply victims of tragic circumstance. A common primary source looked at when referring to The Boston Massacre is Paul Revere’s The Bloody Massacre. The silver engraving appears to show the British soldiers standing in a line being commanded to shoot at the colonists who are running away in fear.
This skirmish lead to the death and injury of civilians and the soldiers arrested for murder. However, the immortality of the Boston Massacre and growing dislike of British troops was cemented by Paul Revere’s etching. It depicted the events of March 5th in such a way that pushed people’s resentment over the edge. Through artistic manipulation, poetic technique and mass-marketing ideas Revere thrust upon the public his own agenda. Discussed in this essay will be his success and the accuracy of the etching.
In reports from the trial of the eight soldiers however, we learn that the massacre was chaos. The crowds taunted the soldiers and were armed with clubs. In the words of the Captain, they
The Kent State Massacre, May 4 1970, saw a peaceful protest by students turn violent when the National Guard was called in to disperse the protest. The National Guard shot and killed 4 students. They also shot bystanders – it led to a greater number of
The three British ships were called the Dartmouth, the Eleanor, and the Beaver Angry residents threatened not to buy or use the tea Government of Great Britain passed the Tea act, a law that almost guaranteed that the American colonists would buy tea from the East India “Boston citizens of all ages watch and cheer from the docks as the “Indians” dump the shipments of hated British tea into the waters of the harbor” (Dolan 7) “The Boston Tea Party lasts only four hours. Case after case of tea is poured into the harbor in that time. Then the “Indians” sweep the decks and holds clean and leave the ships as they found them” (Dolan 30) The son’s of liberty’s outfits were meant to keep their identities a secret from the Boston authorities, who would be mad by what In 1774 five laws were passed that we now call today, The Intolerable Acts
A highway patrolman shot his gun in the air and that is when all the chaos broke loose. Other law enforcement officers and patrol began to fire because they assumed that they were being shot at. They opened fire in the direction of where the students were gathered. Samuel Hammond and Henry Smith, two students that went to South Carolina State, and Delano Middleton, a seventeen year old high school student, were shot and killed. Most of the students were either shot in the back or in the soles of their feet.
Over 3,000 men were killed - mostly rebels. Warwick tried most of the leaders the next day and hanged on the city gallows. Up to 300 men were executed. Nine of them were hanged, drawn and quartered in a cruel ceremony at the Tree of Reformation. Robert Kett and his brother William were given special punishment.
The second phase is the one known by many of us, when four American contractors were killed and their bodies mutilated. At the third phase, the city was turned over in the hands of the Iraqi generals. The fourth phase, fall of 2004 the Marines were again in Fallujah. The city was awaiting the Marines with hundreds of fighters from all over the world. With the murder of the four Americans contractors, it was clear that the U.S. had to react and do something, but it was not until months later.
Fort Hood Shooting On November 5, 2009 in the Fort Hood army base a gunman opened fire at the Soldier Readiness Center, killing 13 people and wounding 30 others. The alleged gunman, Major Nidal Malik Hasan, a U.S. Army psychiatrist, was shot by civilian police officers and was seriously injured. Following the incident, Hasan was hospitalized, initially on a ventilator, under heavy guard. According to eyewitnesses he opened fire with two handguns at soldiers processing through cubicles in the center and on a crowd gathered 30 minutes before a scheduled college graduation ceremony in a nearby theater. At the start of the attack, Hasan reportedly jumped up on a desk and shouted "Allahu Akbar!"
They are not too sure what to do but they run in and shoot their guns up in the air. About half of the people freeze but the others continue with the violence. Five minutes later two more squad cars appear at the scene and do the same thing running in and shooting their guns in the air. At this point everyone dropped their guns and either froze or ran away. Everyone dropped their guns except brad and Phil who had pulled out their guns.