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Tanuki

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4. The Boston Massacre started with snowballs
Tue Jan 13, 2026, 11:04 AM
7 hrs ago
https://www.masshist.org/database/2

"On the evening of 5 March, 1770, an unruly crowd gathered in Boston outside the Custom House on King Street to taunt with jeers and snowballs the British soldiers standing guard. Reinforcements were called, unordered shots rang out, and when the smoke cleared three locals lay dead and another eight were wounded, two mortally. The Boston Massacre quickly became a rallying point for anti-British sentiment in the province, and the real indignation of the people was further inflamed by colonial propaganda, one example of which is exhibited here." ...(more)

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