The Boston Massacre
ฝัง
- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 12 ก.ย. 2024
- The “Boston Massacre,” was a turning-point in relations between American colonists and British authorities, and provided one of the sparks that would ignite the American Revolution.
Written by Michael Kraemer. Narration by Dr. Nicholas B. Breyfogle. Video production by Cody Patton, Laura Seeger, and Dr. Nicholas B. Breyfogle. A textual version of this video is available at origins.osu.ed...
This is a production of Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective at the Goldberg Center in the Department of History at The Ohio State University and the Department of History at Miami University. Be sure to subscribe to our channel to receive updates about our videos and podcasts. For more information about Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective, please visit origins.osu.edu.
I have auniversity degree in engineering, and I had confused the Boston Masacre of 1770 with the Boston Tea Party of 1775, until I watched this educational video
The Boston Tea Party occurred on December 16th, 1773, not 1775.
That's the Old State House, the Custom House is down State street and is a grey stone building.
I knew that, because I've seen pictures both buildings. I was going to post a comment about it, but you beat me to it.
what is the generic intro music called?
"I dunno" by grapes (c) copyright 2008 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license. dig.ccmixter.org/files/grapes/16626 Ft: J Lang, Morusque
European Colonial Settlements Awfully negatively impacted Native Americans who are currently unfortunately a minority in USA !
Evil red coats
They weren't really evil, especially since most of the "Redcoats" involved in the "massacre" were found not guilty on the grounds of self-defense. The remaining two soldiers were convicted of the lesser crime of manslaughter, and as punishment, they were branded on their thumbs with hot irons and dishonorably discharged from the British army.
Their captain, Thomas Preston, was tried separately and was acquitted because the prosecution couldn't prove that he ordered his troops to fire upon the crowd that was attacking them. Indeed, several witnesses testified that Captain Preston was actually trying to STOP THE SHOOTING, not encourage it.
It was exaggerations and propaganda on the part of the Anti-British elements in Boston that gave the impression that what happened on March 5th, 1770 was a cold-blooded "massacre" of innocent civilians, especially a famous (or infamous, if you prefer) etching of the incident, showing the British soldiers viciously firing on the people, who are NOT attacking the soldiers (as had happened in reality), but simply standing there, posing as targets. Captain Preston is shown waving his sword, as if he had just given the order to his men to start shooting, which he always denied doing. Not only that, but the picture also shows an unknown sniper firing a rifle from a window of the customs house in front of which the shooting happened (only the long barrel of the gun is seen, but not whoever was firing it). Since the customs house belonged to the British government, this was probably done for the purpose of blaming the entire British Empire for the "massacre."
By the way, the man who created this inaccurate and misleading depiction of this pivotable event in American history is now considered one of the big heroes of the War of Independence.
His name: PAUL REVERE.