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I think there is riot going on and the british have guns and the people that starting the riot is probly try to get rights back or land the people that started the riot does not have gun to defend them.

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the boston massacre was a street fight that occurred on March 5, 1770, between a patriot mob, throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks, and a squad of British soldiers. Several colonists were killed and this led to a campaign by speech-writers to rouse the ire of the citizenry.

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i think that the boston massacure is going on because of the british army fireing on unarmed citizens in the boston square, then after that i think that the revlutionary war is going to start because of the killing in boston

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It was the killing of five colonists by British regulars on March 5, 1770. It was the culmination of tensions in the American colonies that had been growing since Royal troops first appeared in Massachusetts in October 1768 to enforce the heavy tax burden imposed and ect.

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in this picture the Boston Massacare War he was

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I think on the first picture is the slaves got out then the slave capaturs got them and killed them .

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i think they are in war or there having a gun fight.

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i think they are having a war because many people tried to fight back from the tea party

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I think that this is the Boston Massacre and the Boston Massacre was a fight that was on a street and it happened on March 5, 1770 , it was lead to a massacre because a "patriot" mob was throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks and other solid objects at a couple of British soldiers.

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I think war is going on on this picture and people are killing other people.

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I think that they are tried of people trying to track their city and will not stay in their.

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I think that in these picture war is happenig and it look like many peopleare having weapons and different thing s in there hands. In the other pictures it look like people are getting killed and i think some of the reason were because of segrgation and different boston massacre and the boston tea party.

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I think that this picture is describing a war where many people are dieing by being killed with knifes,bow n arrows,an also guns.This is between the boston tea party.This is the boston massacre.

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I think these people are in war and some people are getting killed

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I think what's happening in the Boston Massacre,people are killing other people,shooting people.

Lastly, I would think this was called because of taxes or anything similar to that!

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Crispus Attucks may have been an African American slave or freeman, merchant seaman and dockworker of Wampanoag and African descent. His father was an African-born slave and his mother a Native American. I think they were fighting for there countries.

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It looks like they are having war and alot of people look like they are getting killed. I think this is being taken place in boston in the 1800's.

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I think that they are having war is because they are fighting against taxes and rights.

I think this event took place in Boston. Around the 1700s.

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i think reason that a cuase the war is the boston massacre and the colony did not wanted taxes on tea

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its the french and indan war

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I think that this is picture is about the Boston Massacre War.

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Also another reason i think that cause the war between these two is the boston massercre so watch the video to find out what happend.

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what i think they are having a war because the people tried to fight back with them and it cause conflict so that why i think or it could be the boston tea party

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I think they are in boston having war , with un armed people that are black. They boston is winning.

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I think they are fighting for there country and freedom

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To me it looks like there is war going on between the red coats and a angry mob of people that are fighting for their rights.

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I think that the men were getting shot because they were maybe trying to run away or fight some of of the leaders.

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I think htey are fighting because the Boston tea party in Sept 3,1783.

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TO ME IT LOOK LIKE THERE's A WAR GOING ON BECAUSE SOMEONE IS TRYING TO TAKE OVER BOSTON SO THEY ARE FIGHTING FOR THEIR TERRITORY

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I think Everyone has had a dissagrement and they are going to war. It looks like it took place in boston around like the 70's or 60's

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They are in Boston. They are being fired at cause they probably didnt follow the rules and the war took place in the 1760s.

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To me this picture looks like the British just stated a war when they killed that black men.

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FIrst they were getting ready to battle.I think it happened about in the 1800s. They had conflict between each other. I also think they were getting fired because of the great britain.

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On the night of December 16, 1773, Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty boarded three ships in the Boston harbor and threw 342 chests of tea overboard. This resulted in the passage of the punitive Coercive Acts in 1774 and pushed the two sides closer to war.

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i think that the pictures are showing the american revolution aka the boston massacre and they are trying to hold there groind so nobody else get it and trys to take over it

("he Boston Massacre was a street fight that occurred on March 5, 1770, between a "patriot" mob, throwing snowballs, stones, and stick")

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They are in Boston. They are being fired at cause they probably didnt follow the rules. This war took place in the 1760s.

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In all the pictures the boston massicure is happening.

The only reason the colonist and the British fought was because the British taxed the colonist and the colonist threw a lot of tea off of the three boats.

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To me I think that the people from Boston, are going to war with whoecer their fighting, and a colored person happens to get in the middle of it. And once they realized he is colored they start shooting anyone who isn't with their contry and that gets in the middle of everything.

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It looks like they are fighting and the ones in the red coat are shooting at the other ones becuse they are claiming at the soilders in red.it took place in boston about around the 60's or 70's.

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war starded like this a grou of people was mad at the british because they fired people from their homes.

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It looks like people are fighting. I think they are fighting because taxes keep raising without anyones vote. I think this is taking place in Boston. I think this is happening in the 1700s.

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To me it loook like its a war happening and they wanted freedom or a camp spot.Also fighting 4 their rights and laws.

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I think the picture is about the people fighting back aginsy the british

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I think the men in this picture is that they are going war an people is getting killed very bad.. Some of the people were missing,killed,an some sold to other people . An they taxed was not so fair

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I think there is a war going on called the Revolutionary War in the time period of April 19, 1775 – September 3, 1783 like when Britian was putting all those taxes on things and the Boston Tea Party

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http://www.lionheart-filmworks.com Short Preview clip from the award-winning Museum film 'Let It Begin Here" - completed in 2012 for the Boston Tea Party Ships & Museum in Boston, Made for Historic Tours of America. This edit is from early in the post-production process -- before final sound mix, color correction and anamorphic formatting.

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I think that is happening is the boston fright with plymouth and to me it seem that they was killing each other becaus eof what some said or something like that. They might killing each other over nothing

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I think theer is a riot going on because of rights a the law Nd the african american got kille dby the bitish and the people thatstarted the riot has no wepons to defend them selves.

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I think in the pitures the Boston poeple are get in a battle and the other poeple are geting shots in there body.

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In one of the pictures cripus and his men didn't have guns all they had were sticks and rocks

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the boston masecer happened because the colenists lost ther homes because of the brittish so they tried to fight back

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Contents

1. Prelude to the Boston Massacre

2. Violence Erupts between Colonists and Soldiers

3. Boston Massacre Fueled Anti-British Views

4. John Adams for the Defense

5. Aftermath of the Boston Massacre

The Boston Massacre was a deadly riot that occurred on March 5, 1770, on King Street in Boston. It began as a street brawl between American colonists and a lone British soldier, but quickly escalated to a chaotic, bloody slaughter. The conflict energized anti-British sentiment and paved the way for the American Revolution.

Prelude to the Boston Massacre

Tensions ran high in Boston in early 1770. More than 2,000 British soldiers occupied the city of 16,000 colonists and tried to enforce Britain's tax laws, like the Stamp Act and Townshend Acts. American colonists rebelled against the taxes they found repressive, rallying around the cry, "no taxation without representation."

Skirmishes between colonists and soldiers-and between patriot colonists and colonists loyal to Britain (loyalists)-were increasingly common. To protest taxes, patriots often vandalized stores selling British goods and intimidated store merchants and their customers.

On February 22, a mob of patriots attacked a known loyalist's store. Customs officer Ebenezer Richardson lived near the store and tried to break up the rock-pelting crowd by firing his gun through the window of his home. His gunfire struck and killed an 11-year-old boy named Christopher Seider and further enraged the patriots.

Several days later, a fight broke out between local workers and British soldiers. It ended without serious bloodshed but helped set the stage for the bloody incident yet to come.

Violence Erupts between Colonists and Soldiers

On the frigid, snowy evening of March 5, 1770, Private Hugh White was the only soldier guarding the King's money stored inside the Custom House on King Street. It wasn't long before angry colonists joined him and insulted him and threatened violence.

At some point, White fought back and struck a colonist with his bayonet. In retaliation, the colonists pelted him with snowballs, ice and stones. Bells started ringing throughout the town-usually a warning of fire-sending a mass of male colonists into the streets. As the assault on White continued, he eventually fell and called for reinforcements.

In response to White's plea and fearing mass riots and the loss of the King's money, Captain Thomas Preston arrived on the scene with several soldiers and took up a defensive position in front of the Custom House.

Worried that bloodshed was inevitable, some colonists reportedly pleaded with the soldiers to hold their fire as others dared them to shoot. Preston later reported a colonist told him the protestors planned to "carry off [White] from his post and probably murder him."

The violence escalated, and the colonists struck the soldiers with clubs and sticks. Reports differ of exactly what happened next, but after someone supposedly said the word "fire," a soldier fired his gun, although it's unclear if the discharge was intentional.

Once the first shot rang out, other soldiers opened fire, killing five colonists-including Crispus Attucks, a local dockworker of mixed racial heritage-and wounding six. Among the other casualties of the Boston Massacre was Samuel Gray, a rope maker who was left with a hole the size of a fist in his head. Sailor James Caldwell was hit twice before dying, and Samuel Maverick and Patrick Carr were mortally wounded.

Boston Massacre Fueled Anti-British Views

Within hours, Preston and his soldiers were arrested and jailed and the propaganda machine was in full force on both sides of the conflict.

Preston wrote his version of the events from his jail cell for publication, while Sons of Liberty leaders such as John Hancock and Samuel Adams incited colonists to keep fighting the British. As tensions rose, British troops retreated from Boston to Fort William.

Paul Revere encouraged anti-British attitudes by etching a now-famous engraving depicting British soldiers callously murdering American colonists. It showed the British as the instigators though the colonists had started the fight.

It also portrayed the soldiers as vicious men and the colonists as gentlemen. It was later determined that Revere had copied his engraving from one made by Boston artist Henry Pelham.

John Adams for the Defense

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It took seven months to arraign Preston and the other soldiers involved in the Boston Massacre and bring them to trial. Ironically, it was American colonist, lawyer and future President of the United States John Adams who defended them.

Adams was no fan of the British but wanted Preston and his men to receive a fair trial. After all, the death penalty was at stake and the colonists didn't want the British to have an excuse to even the score. Certain that impartial jurors were nonexistent in Boston, Adams convinced the judge to seat a jury of non-Bostonians.

During Preston's trial, Adams argued that confusion that night was rampant. Eyewitnesses presented contradictory evidence on whether Preston had ordered his men to fire on the colonists.

But after witness Richard Palmes testified that, "...After the Gun went off I heard the word 'fire!' The Captain and I stood in front about half between the breech and muzzle of the Guns. I don't know who gave the word to fire," Adams argued that reasonable doubt existed; Preston was found not guilty.

The remaining soldiers claimed self-defense and were all found not guilty of murder. Two of them-Hugh Montgomery and Matthew Kilroy-were found guilty of manslaughter and were branded on the thumbs as first offenders per English law.

To Adams' and the jury's credit, the British soldiers received a fair trial despite the vitriol felt towards them and their country.

Aftermath of the Boston Massacre

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The Boston Massacre had a major impact on relations between Britain and the American colonists. It further incensed colonists already weary of British rule and unfair taxation and roused them to fight for independence.

Yet perhaps Preston said it best when he wrote about the conflict and said, "None of them was a hero. The victims were troublemakers who got more than they deserved. The soldiers were professionals...who shouldn't have panicked. The whole thing shouldn't have happened."

Over the next five years, the colonists continued their rebellion and staged the Boston Tea Party, formed the First Continental Congress and defended their militia arsenal at Concord against the redcoats, effectively launching the American Revolution. Today, the city of Boston has a Boston Massacre site marker at the intersection of Congress Street and State Street, a few yards from where the first shots were fired.

Sources

After the Boston Massacre. John Adams Historical Society.

Boston Massacre Trial. National Park Service: National Historical Park of Massachusetts.

Paul Revere's Engraving of the Boston Massacre, 1770. The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History.

The Boston Massacre. Bostonian Society Old State House.

The Boston "Massacre." H.S.I. Historical Scene Investigation.

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I think the pictures are about the boston massacre they are having a street fight that occured on march 5,1770 between a patriot mob and the british soldiers

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The picture shows the boston massacre.Also the reason why they are being fired upon is because one of the red coats was hit with one of the clubs from the colonists.It is taking place in a vilage on march 5, 1770.

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I think that the people in the picture are getting hurt with like guns and knives. The other reason is that the people must did something something or it was for there color.

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I think that the first picture means that they mad so they want war with the people that teated them wrong and they saying that the people that treated them wrong owe them payback.

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Looks like they are fighting in the picture and maybe because they are rivals or someones on anothers property

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in the picture i think u see what really started war when the british open fire on the innocent and unarmed civilians .

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I think in the pictures the Boston Massacre is going on a street fight that happend on March 5, 1770

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I think people in the picture are getting shot by guns. They are getting hurt because they probly didn't wont to what they said

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In the picture i think that people are getting killed. I also think that there a war that is starting that why every one is fighting and killing. Another reason that i think there fighting because i think they are fighting for land. Or they are fighting for the king the emenies in the pitcher they want to kill the the king. Another reason in the picture it looks like its the Boston Massacre in March 5, 1770. So those are the stuff i think happend in the video.

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I think there is a war going on and people are getting killed. The war is called the Boston Massacre which is happening in Boston Massachsetts. The British side is winning, which means they can keep shooting at the colonists.

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I think they fought back because they knew what would happen and The Red Coats was going to in slave them.

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In the pictures i think they are having a battle .

In the third one the people are raedy to fight them .

The second picture it shows the other people with their guns and shouting at them . Blood was every where alround in Massachesetts . The event is taking in Bostion .

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In the First Pic It looks like a war is going on and blood is just shoot everywhere. It looks like war also but it looks one group of people are trying to give up or surrender. They might be trying to clam some land so they wanted to have a big war for it. In Britain or something. This might have Happened in the 1800's or later.

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In the pictures i think the Boston Massacre is happening in Massachesetts.

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they couldn't stand the English laws and they wanted a stop to this then they wanted war with the British

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The red coats are killing the men for no reason they should go to jail for killing people for no reason the men just lost their job

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I think that everyone in the picture are fighting, they are probably fighting because one of them are on each other properties and they don't like that or there just going at war for no reason. I say this event is taking place in England in 1842

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The coloynist was mad about the taxs so they boycott the British

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1. the Boston Massacure is happening.

2.there getting shot cause there causeing a riot.and there going against Britan

3.This is happen somehere Boston.

4.it happen somehere around 1770.

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I think there's war and there all in Boston, and there's people killing other people. People are getting shot, and I think there's a riot between both sides.

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The colinist were angry about the tax so they boycott the British tea

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1.They seem to be fighting

2.because they would not stop coming closer to them

3.in a village

4.between the1728 1770 in england or boston

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They are at war and fighting and that they all are coming to fight their battle.

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In the pictures I see people getting shot. They are being shot because they are not doing what they are told to do. I think this is going on in Boston, and I think that it happened in the1770's.

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1.This is a picture of the Boston Massacure

2. I think people are getting fired opon because they are rebelling against Great Britan.

3. I think this taking place in the streets of Boston, Massachusetts.

4. I think that this took place around the time of 1760 or sometime in the mid 1700s.

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In all the pictures the boston massicure is happening.

The only reason the colonist and the british fought was because the british taxed the colonist and the colonist threw a lot of team off 3 boats. This all took place in 1756-1763. This all happend in britian.

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the boston is fight with plymouth

i think they were fired upon is that the plymouth start to fight them so the boston tried to fired them.

i think take time in 1758 or 1750 some were between.

i think it took places in plymouth houses

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i think that there is a war in Boston and people are killing each other. I also think that there is a riot between the 2 people in the the Boston Massacre. There is also people fire guns upon each other because they are in war. Also in this pictures it looks like both sides are at a tie of winning and i don't think anybody will win the war in the picture.

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I think they are killing other people with there guns.

i think this was in boston

this is taking place in the 1760s

I think this took place 1700s

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poeple were killing poeple thay didnt have guns

it was in boston

it was 1760s

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this is Boston pepole are being fired opon because they are rebelling against great britan. it is takling place around 1700.

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in the pictures i think that Boston massacre fighting! an i think this happened in bout the 1760 an the reason why i think there getting fired at is because the people are at war

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1. The pictures below the questions are two different images of the boston massacure

2. These people are being fired opon because they are rebelling against Great Britan.

3.

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I think there is a war in Boston and there was some sort of conflict between them , and it took place around the 1770s

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I think this is boston and they come for war in boston and that some people got killed and some people are running

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I think there's war and there all in Boston, and there's people killing other people. People are getting shot, and I think there's a riot between both sides.

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they are soon starting the revolution war they are fighting because they wanted freedom. This video is the red coat shooting the rebels.

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I think this Boston having war.Also I think this was 1756 when they was fighting. The reason they were fighting because of the taxes

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