A Particular account of the most barbarous and horrid massacre! Committed in King-Street, Boston, on Monday, March 5, 1770, by the soldiery quartered in said town', 1770
This graphic is inspired by the header graphic on a flyer printed by John Boyles of Boston in 1770 in response to the Horrid Boston Massacre that had recently transpired.
The Boston Massacre, known as the Incident on King Street by the British, was an incident on March 5, 1770, in which British Army soldiers killed five male civilians and injured six others. The incident was heavily propagandized by leading Patriots, such as Paul Revere and Samuel Adams, to fuel animosity toward the British authorities.
