What is the Boston Massacre called in the UK? I'm sure that they have a different point of view than the name used for American history as taught in the US.
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I'd never heard of it so I've never called it anything. However , I see from Google searching that, according to the account of it given by your Reserve Officer Training Corps,at Worcester Polytechnic Institute a) it was not a 'massacre'; three men were killed outright and two mortally wounded b)the soldiers involved were tried c) they were defended by John Adams d) they were acquitted.
I bet those who are historians here call it the Boston Massacre. What would you expect us to call it? 'The Boston Small Riot With Not Many Dead But They Deserved It?','The (Probably Foreign) Terrorists Controlled by British Peacekeeping Force' ( writes Cheney)'Incident'?
As a postscript, Crispus Attucks, one of the leaders of the Boston demonstrators, was killed in the volley of gunfire. Although this incident occured 5 years prior to the Declaration of Independence, Attucks is considered to be the the first black Colonial killed in the American Revolutionary War.
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