The Boston Marathon is an annual event that was first run in April 1897, starting out with only 10 runners each following year it grew in popularity (www.baaorg). In 1966 the first woman ran unofficially in the race, it was not until 1972 that women were officially allow entering the race. This race attracts people from around the world and continues to grow in popularity. In 2013 the race was just like any other race day, until 2:49PM EST. This was when the Boston Marathon became another terrorist
The engraving depicts the famous Boston Massacre, the skirmish that occurred between Boston citizens and British soldiers on the evening of March 5, 1770, however, it does not represent an actual even accurately. It is well known that Boston citizens threw snowballs and ice among other weapons at the British soldiers, but the engraving does not show any signs of snow or ice. Also, the Boston Massacre occurred after 9 pm, but the depicted sky is quite light, and the only indication that the scene
Source A: This cartoon shows a British colonialist sitting on a box of tea after the Boston Tea Party. The colonist, clearly in a position of weakness, says “make no mistake… I’m still in command of this vessel.” Despite the colonist’s words, the patriots had clearly “won this battle”, and had taken a huge step forward towards independence. The cartoon shows that this event, organised by the Boston Patriots, weakened the colonists, and helped the Americans in their fight for independence. Context
Jake Drechsler Mr. Decker Dual Credit US History 26 September 2015 The Boson Massacre The Boston Massacre was street fight between British Regulars and a group of colonists. The colonists were throwing snowballs and other various objects at the soldiers. The soldiers acted upon this by firing on the group of colonists. The British Regulars had been sent to Boston in 1768 after the colonists started calling themselves patriots and rebelling against the British parliament because of the taxation
The book the Boston Massacre was written by Hiller B. Zobel in 1970. It narrates one of the saddest stories in the United States. In fact that massacre has a background which led the population into the worst situation. Boston, at that time, was a major center of resistance to unpopular acts of taxation by the British Parliament in 1760. Beyond that, the Townshend Acts, a series of taxes, were add upon the colonists in 1768. These Townshend acts taxes, were placed on a variety of items that were
three religious wars broke out between protestants and catholics. The article entitled “ Prologue to Massacre: Popular Unrest in Paris, 1557-1572” describes these wars and how they built up into the St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre on August 24th , 1572 . Barbara Diefendorf, the author, is professor of Early Modern Europe and French History at the Boston University. She has been teaching at Boston University since 1980, she has authored multiple books about a variety of topics relating to sixteenth