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Boston Massacre, the
     
Boston Massacre, the
one of the events that started the American Revolutionary War. In 1770 a group of Boston citizens, who were angry because the British army was in their town, threatened a British soldier. Other soldiers fired their guns into the crowd, killing five people.
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