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John Hancock stated "Let this sad tale of death never be told without a tear; let not the heaving bosom cease to burn with a manly indignation at the barbarous story . . ." during his oration of the massacre on 5 March 1774. The "Boston Massacre" as it was called, was really not a massacre in the sense that a lot of people were slaughtered, it was a massacre in the sense that British government's authority was not to …

…and Samuel Adams took the events of 5 March 1770 and exaggerated the battle. News of the fight quickly spread and ignited the flame the colonists would need to cut the ties of England. The Boston Massacre was the first step to the inevitable Revolutionary war where the colonists would gain their independence from Britain. Little did these antagonists know that they were the cornerstones of the building of the greatest nation in the world. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**