“Fire if you dare, God damn you, fire and be damned!”
While being harassed by an angry mob in front of the Customs House, British Army soldiers shoot and kill 5 Bostonians: Samuel Gray (SG), Samuel Maverick (SM), James Caldwell (JC), Crispus Attucks (CJA), and Patrick Carr (PC).
A relatively unknown Boston lawyer named John Adams would successfully defend the British soldiers, exonerating them of their actions on the basis of self-defense.
