Colfax massacre

On a freezing cold day in Boston, 1770, John and Hugh, who were redcoats, were ordered to stand guard on King Street. Silence surrounded the soldiers on the street, nervousness and anxiousness crept towards them. They knew the Boston colonists and the Sons of Liberty, who were showing animosity towards King George for charging them unfair taxes. The colonists were all enraged because of what the king is doing. The Americans totally dislike the King's soldiers on American ground, therefore they have

“The Bloody Massacre” shows civilians getting shot but it doesn’t say there were four naked men being shot and killed (Revere.) The Boston Gazette 2 is more persuasive because it describes the lurid details of the shooting. “Mr. James Caldwell, mate of Capt. Morton’s vessel, in like manner killed by two balls entering his back.” which shows the lurid manner in which the soldier shot and killed someone who was running and not fighting back (Boston Gazette 2.) In the picture “Boston Massacre” it shows

The Forgotten Genocide The slaughtering of 1.5 million innocent people at the hands of a cruel failing empire. Families and friends torn apart for no reason and all while being silenced from the rest of the world. The Armenian Genocide was swept under the rug by the successor to the Ottoman empire, the Turkish Republic. The cruelty in slaughtering millions of people, to using them for slave labor, and numerous death camps for women and children the Armenian Genocide was a tragic time in the history

The American colonist and the British started out having a very civil relationship. They provided each other with resources. During the French and Indian war the colonists were on the British side and helped them fight. Unfortunately, after the war the British started to change their ways and started to come up with new stricter rules. The British started to tax the colonist on different kinds of items, which was not fair to the colonists. They were controlling the colonist with everything they did

The Boston Massacre occurred on March 5, 1770 in Boston, Massachusetts. The Boston Massacre was a small riot between the colonists and British soldiers. Evidence supports that the colonists were to blame for the events that led to the Boston Massacre, which resulted in five colonial deaths. The colonists used propaganda to invoke anger in the colonists. Document 1, which is an engraving of the Boston Massacre by Paul Revere depicts the colonists as helpless bystanders that were shot down by the British

he would certainly been one of out countries foremost leaders. In fact, "Loyalist Peter Oliver surmised in 1782 that if Warren had lived, George Washington would have been 'an obscurity' " (Klein). In 1772 in his speech commemorating the Boston Massacre, Warren wrote, "May we ever be a people favored of God. May out land be a land of liberty, the seat of virtue, the asylum of the oppressed, a name and praise in the whole earth"

Was the Boston Massacre an accident? That is the question. In many cases some say yes, however, the British soldiers that were under “attack”, by snowballs and rocks, of the colonists put themselves in that position. To begin the day colonists by the name of Edward Archbald, William Merchant, Francis Archbald, and John Leech Jr., came down cornhill together. They separated at Doctor Loring’s corner. Archbald and Merchant walked down a narrow path where in a clearing they saw British soldiers with

What follow are the events and tensions leading up to the Boston Massacre on March 5th, 1770. The soldiers and the colonists were quarreling and there were high tensions amongst them. In the days leading up to the massacre the soldiers may have plotted against the colonists of New England. There was a fight that took place at the ropemakers, which is considered to be one of the most influential encounters between the soldiers and the New Englanders. There are several different accounts of how this

a time of slaughter for civilians and soldiers alike, the international committee built a safety zone to protect innocent civilians from the chaos. The zone help saved over 200,000 Chinese civilians from the ruthless slaughters during the Nanking Massacre of 1937, and later stayed to help rebuild Nanjing after the Devastation attack. Each country has different views of what they believe was the start of WWII. “ But Asians trace the war’s beginnings all the way back to Japan’s first attempt to dominate

Historical Idea: The Japanese were particularly brutal because they saw the Chinese as an inferior race. A topic of debate in recent history is the reasoning behind the Japanese’ overly-brutal violence towards the Chinese during the massacre at Nanjing. The prevailing theory is that the Japanese saw the Chinese as an inferior race, or ‘Chancorro’ (sub-human)- thus, killing Chinese held no great significance. Chinese soldiers were not the only targets for the brutality, innocent Chinese citizens