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The Boston Incident: The Murderous Incident
Calling the Boston incident a murderous massacre is nothing more than an abundance of fabricated misconceptions and false accusations concocted in order to let biased power out way justice. This case is not of slaughter or senseless homicide but of prejudice and defense from both opposing parties. These British men who have been ordered here to this place of hatred and abhorrence to anything unpatriotic, are not murderers but frightened men trying to defend themselves from the harm of the vexed flock of colonists.

On the night of March 5 1770, a British soldier stood as he performed his duty as guard. Not with overfilled pride and extensive bourgeois but with the reluctance and anxiousness of any person forced into an uncomfortable situation. And as he labored through the hour to perform his duties he is surprised by the large mass of
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This statement is filled with complete and utter asinine. Who would dare to threaten the lion while in its den? Such is the act of an idiotic fool. There may have been an army of soldiers sent to the Americas but they were divided giving them no strength in numbers. Though the colonist were opposed to British rule what mighty and divine power gives them the right to unleash their anger on to the British men? Do they know the soldiers by face and name so they know who specifically the unjust culprit is? This I highly doubt.

The painting created by the artist best presents the event that took place on the night of March 5 1770. The art exhibits the savagery and ferocity that was exhibited by both parties. Chunks of ice thrown, fist flying, clubs swinging, shots fired, cruel intentions swarm through the night, this painting carries the energy of the total anarchy that boiled over that chaotic

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