British Bullets Fire Five: The Boston Massacre Ignites Revolution
British troops fired into a crowd of colonists, killing five men including Crispus Attucks and turning local anger into a unified radical cause. This bloodshed galvanized anti-British sentiment across the colonies, directly fueling the outbreak of the American Radical War just five years later.
March 5, 1770
256 years ago
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