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1770, American Colonies, Boston, Boston Massacre, Boston Tea Party, Great Britain, Indian Wars, March 5, Massachusetts, Redcoats, this day in history, United Kingdom, United States of America
On which British Redcoats fire into a mob of colonial yahoos, slaying five. The incident, later known in America as the Boston Massacre, drives a further wedge in the growing schism between the colonists and the mother country, which in just over five years’ time will blossom into outright rebellion.