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Record group: Record Group 69: Records of the Work Projects Administration, 1922 - 1944 (National Archives Identifier: 398)Series: WPA Information Division Photographic Index, compiled ca. 1936 - ca. 1942 (National Archives Identifier: 518261)
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In April 1775, colonial forces barricaded Boston Neck in the Siege of Boston, including the Common and the Liberty Tree. Only British troops and a small number of Loyalist merchants remained on the Neck, and sometime between August 28 and 31, [ 9 ] a party of Loyalists led by Nathaniel Coffin Jr. [ 10 ] or by Job Williams cut down the tree and ...
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The Boston Massacre (known in Great Britain as the Incident on King Street) [1] was a confrontation in Boston on March 5, 1770, in which nine British soldiers shot several of a crowd of three or four hundred who were harassing them verbally and throwing various projectiles.
The "bas-relief" (raised portion on the face of the main part of the monument) portrays the Boston Massacre, with Attucks lying in the foreground. Under the scene is the date, March 5, 1770. Above the bas-relief stands a female figure, Free America, holding the broken chain of oppression in her right hand. Beneath her right foot, she crushes ...
Pages in category "Boston Massacre" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
In 1770, Pelham's engravement, The Fruits of Arbitrary Power, or The Bloody Massacre, depicted the Boston Massacre of March 5, 1770. He lent a copy to Paul Revere, who copied it and produced his own engraving from it. Because Revere's version was advertised for sale three weeks after the massacre and a week before Pelham's version went on sale ...