波士頓慘案 (Boston Massacre)
1770年3月5日

美國殖民人士與英國之間的緊張關係在1770年初春就已經顯得劍拔弩張。在該年3月5日的午後，一群波士頓青年嘲笑駐守在波士頓海關大樓的英國士兵，並且對其扔擲雪球。一個英國士兵被雪球擊中之後，其他士兵變得憤怒不平，雖然他們被禁止開槍，但是他們還是對著人群射擊。最後他們一共射殺了四個人，這也是史稱的「波士頓慘案」。

Tensions between the American colonists and the British were already running high in the early spring of 1770. Late in the afternoon, on March 5, a crowd of jeering Bostonians slinging snowballs gathered around a small group of British soldiers guarding the Boston Customs House. The soldiers became enraged after one of them had been hit, and they fired into the crowd, even though they were under orders not to fire. Their shots hit and killed four civilians in an event that has come to be known as the Boston Massacre.

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