Boston Massacre Essay

The incident started on King Street in the early evening of March 5, 1770. I saw Gerrish exchanged insults with Private White, who left his post, challenged the boy, and then struck him on the side of the head with a musket. Then i was shocked by when Gerrish cried in pain, so this attracted a larger crowd. The mob grew in size and continued harassing Private White. Private Hugh Montgomery was struck down onto the ground by a club. I was also surprised when he got back to his feet, he fired his musket, later admitting to one of his defense attorneys that he had yelled "Damn you, fire!" However, the protesters in the crowd were taunting the soldiers by yelling "Fire". There was a pause that lasted quite a while then the soldiers fired into the crowd. Their bad aiming had hit eleven men. Three Americans Samuel Gray, James Caldwell, and Crispus Attuck died instantly. Seventeen-year-old Samuel Maverick, struck by a ricocheting musket ball at the back of the crowd, died a few hours later, in the early morning of the next day. Thirty-year-old Irish immigrant Patrick Carr died two weeks later. To keep the peace, the next day royal authorities agreed to remove all troops from the centre of town to a fort on Castle Island in Boston Harbor. On March 27 the soldiers, Captain Preston and four men who were in the Customs House and alleged to have fired shots, were indicted for murder. All of this little battle(massacre) was really quite amazing. I think the consequences for the people that were involved should be going 2 jail or every single war that there will be in the future.