Read these two passages, which provide different perspectives on the Boston Massacre.
In passing to this station the soldiers pushed several
persons with their bayonets This occasioned some
snowballs to be thrown at them which seems to have
been the only provocation that was given. ... the
soldiers of his detachment had attacked the people with
their bayonets and ... there was not the least
provocation
Captain Preston is said to have ordered them to fire, and
to have repeated that order.
-Witnesses to the massacr