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Revolutionary War artifacts on display; Objects on view at public library.(LOCAL NEWS)

From: Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA)  |  Date: 3/6/2008

Byline: Mary Jo Hill

LEOMINSTER - The broadsheet was meant to incite citizens and got off to a rousing start with the headline: "A particular account of the most barbarous and horrid massacre!"

The paper, designed to be posted in a public place, gives an account of the Boston Massacre, which occurred on March 5, 1770, when tensions culminated between Colonists and British troops over the Red Coats quartering in Boston.

Five Bostonians were killed when British soldiers ...

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