And your evidence that the Boston mob was unarmed is?????

Anne

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> How about calling it the "Boston Misunderstanding Causing  Unarmed 
> Civilians
> to be Killed by Armed British Soldiers."
>
>
> In a message dated 11/12/2008 1:07:10 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> [log in to unmask] writes:
>
> Folks,
>
> The following is meat of the description of the  "massacre" that led to 
> the
> beginning of the Revolutionary War:
>
> "A  tense situation because of a heavy British military presence in Boston
> boiled over to incite brawls between soldiers and civilians and eventually
> led to troops discharging their muskets after being attacked by a rioting
> crowd. Three civilians were killed at the scene of the shooting, and two
> died after the incident."
>
> It is historically correct to refer to  the above incident as "The Boston
> Massacre", yet the word "Massacre" seems  as out of place here as the term
> "genocide" was in the post by Tony Lister  in regard to Nat Turner. It is
> perhaps true that the victor write history,  but it seems to me that the
> victor also bears some responsibility to  provide accuracy and to show 
> more
> than one side of an  issue.
> Anne
>
>
> Anne  Pemberton
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