massacre
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He had become acquainted with Revere by 1763, and purchased things from him, mostly small silver frames, but the relationship did not last beyond 1770, the year of the Boston Massacre.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026
Hoover’s last book with History Press, The Kelayres Massacre, was put out just a few months after Arcadia acquired the publisher.
From Slate • Nov. 3, 2025
For the founding generation, their defining experience of the dangers of domestic deployment of the military was the Boston Massacre and the quartering of British troops in private homes.
From Salon • Jul. 11, 2025
"The Tulsa Race Massacre has been a stain on our city's history... hidden from history books," Nichols said.
From BBC • Jun. 2, 2025
One statue in the Boston Commons astonished me: a Negro named Crispus Attucks, who had been the first man to fall in the Boston Massacre.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
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