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Boston Massacre 1770, pre-Revolutionary incident growing out of the resentment against the British troops sent to Boston to maintain order and to enforce the Townshend Acts . The troops, constantly tormented by irresponsible gangs, finally (Mar. 5, 1770) fired into a rioting crowd and killed five men—three on the spot, two of wounds later. The funeral of the victims was the occasion for a great patriot demonstration. The British captain, Thomas Preston, and his men were tried for murder, with Robert Treat Paine as prosecutor, John Adams and Josiah Quincy as lawyers for the defense. Preston and six of his men were acquitted; two others were found guilty of manslaughter, punished, and discharged from the army.

Bibliography: See study by H. B. Zobel (1970).

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Boston Massacre (March 5, 1770) a so-called massacre in which a small band of British Army regulars, who were members of a garrison stationed in Boston to protect customs agents, fired a volley into a crowd of townspeople they had been unable to disperse. Five townspeople died. The troops were removed from Boston by Gen. Thomas Gage, and all but two redcoats involved were acquitted by a local jury.

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