Tragedy Of The Boston Massacre

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This is Shariya Rahman reporting live from the scene. This British have just send in troops to retain order in Boston. Sources say that someone from the colonist crowd taunted a British official. The British troop would then fire into the crowd. These fire shoots would then lead to 5 colonist dying, and leaving 6 more wounded. This eventually would lead into the Crispus Attack. Many are starting to call this tragedy the Boston Massacre.

In the previous events the British was taxing the mess out of the colonist. Everything that the colonist bought, the British would tax. Some of the taxed items were on sugar, stamps, and even tea. The reason Britain taxed the colonist so much was to pay off their debts with the French. Later on the British