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From: Glenn <>
Subject: [1776] It happened today MARCH 5th 1770
Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2007 11:58:42 -0500

March 5th 1770

Colonists were forced to house British soldiers. On MARCH 5, 1770, a
crowd protested and in the confusion British soldiers fired, killing
five, one being Crispus Attucks, the most famous African America who
participated in the Revolution.

Paul Revere's popular engraving of the Boston Massacre fanned flames
of anti-British sentiment. Joseph Warren, the President of the
Massachusetts Congress who sent Paul Revere on his midnight ride, stated
on the 2nd anniversary of the Massacre, 1772:

"If you perform your part, you must have the strongest confidence that
the same Almighty Being who protected your pious and venerable
forefathers...will still be mindful of you...May our land be a land of
liberty...until the last shock of time shall bury the empires of the
world in one common undistinguishable ruin!"

John Hancock, first to sign the Declaration of Independence, stated on
the 4th anniversary of the Boston Massacre, 1774:

"Let us play the man for our GOD, and for the cities of our GOD...By a
faithful discharge of our duty to our country, let us joyfully leave her
important concerns in the hands of HIM who raiseth up and putteth down
empires and kingdoms of the world as HE pleases."

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