Was the Boston Massacre an accident, people say it was, people say it wasn't. Till what I´ve heard the Boston Massacre is not an accident because according to the articles many witnesses were there to experience it such as Benjamin Burdick he had a testimony of the Boston massacre that he said in court. Another guy that was there to witness the horrible traject was Nutent Prince both of them saw what happened. Nutent Prince supports either side because it says in source D that he saw snow balls, clubs, buckets, that the colonist had to defend themselves. Also the testimony of Thomas Preston who was the captain of the british soldiers, said i source B that many of the civilians were yelling saying ¨Come on rascals, your bloody backs, you lobster scoundrels, fire if you dare...dam you… we know you not¨. So basically what the civilians were trying to say to the soldiers were to shoot them so it sounded like the wanted to get shot. They wanted them to fire as what Thomas Preston thought, they would throw all sorts of stuff at them. As Thomas Preston says in his testimony that, all of a sudden they started throwing clubs and snowballs …show more content…
As it says in source B ¨I answered no, by no means, observing to them that I was advanced before the muzzles of the men's pieces¨. They also had no other choice to do because according to the article the british soldiers were pushed against a wall with no way out and they were ready to fire because the civilians wanted them to fire. Also the soldiers wanted no harm they didn't want to hurt the civilians, as it says in the Article of ¨Toward Independence¨, Some Patriots tried to persuade the leaders to go back home peacefully. The civilians were mad and threw rocks and snowballs, that's when they hit a soldier on the head and all madness broke loose and the soldiers began to