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On March 5, 1770, in the street before you, nine British soldiers were confronted by an angry mob. The soldiers fired without orders and killed five of his Majesty's subjects. Samuel Adams' description of the event and Paul Revere's engraving of the scene fueled public outrage and helped arouse revolutionary fervor among colonists throughout America.
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