The teenager who said he was forced to shoot a gun at protesters during the Boston Massacre
By adamg on Thu, 03/05/2020 - 9:51am
Today is the 250th anniversary of the Boston Massacre, outside what is now the Old State House. J.L. Bell discusses the deadly brawl from a different perspective, that of a French servant who testified he fired towards the crowd from the second floor of the Boston customhouse, where his master, Edward Manwaring, worked:
[O]ne of them a tall man, pulled me up stairs, and said to me, you must fire, the tall man gave me a gun, and said to me "if you don’t fire I'll kill you."
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