Video: 'Boston Massacre'

(Monday, March 5, 1770, evening local time; during the Boston Massacre) — British soldiers who’d been taunted by a crowd of colonists opened fire tonight in Boston, killing five people in one of the events that led to the American Revolution.

Video: 'History Brief: The Boston Massacre'

British troops had been stationed in the Province of Massachusetts Bay since 1768 in order to support crown-appointed officials and to enforce unpopular Parliamentary legislation.