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The leading events to the massacre was that a redcoat named White struck Edward Garrick with the butt of his musket. This caused angry Bostonians to surround White.

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Captain Preston then came to retrieve White with 8 redcoats. Witnesses say that a club hit Montgomery (a redcoat) in the face causing him to fire the first shot.

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After the first shot was taken then the other redcoats started firing killing Samuel Gray, Samuel Maverick, James Caldwell, Patrick Carr and Crispus Attucks who was later labeled as an African-American hero in the civil war

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Paul Revere used the massacre to try and turn the people against great Britain and join the rebellion.

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He was one of the five that lost their lives in the Boston Massacre

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Another victim in the Boston Massacre