The Boston Massacre - Snow and Gunpowder - Extra History

Boston, 1770. A frigid winter night. A British sentry strikes a local citizen. Civilians begins to gather. Reinforcements arrive to back up the young sentry. Insults and snowballs escalate. Then out of the darkness comes a shout: “FIRE!” bit.ly/EHPatreon

Ah yes, the least massacrery massacre that ever massacred.

“Facts don’t care about your feelings” -John Adams

The faces are hilarious. Love how this new style captures confusion, rage and confused rage perfectly.

There were three categories of heroes in the trial. The defense attorney, John Adams, who was willing to risk destroying his reputation and legal practice to defend the soldiers and their right to a fair trial. The witnesses who had the courage in the face of public pressure from their fellow colonists to agree to testify and provide an honest account of the events which was exculpatory. The jurors who put their anger and prejudices aside to concede that the soldiers did not open fire with malicious, unprovoked intent to kill but merely panicked and acted in self-defense.

Wow. From the way I was always taught in school, they made it sound like the British soldiers just fired into the crowd for no reason on purpose, rather than having misheard an order to fire. I had no idea there was a trial or anything else. This video really cleared up some facts I never learned.

Adam's dopey face while holding the join or die flag is so fricking great

8:23 lol "Facts don't care about your feelings" John Adams

I literally can’t even learn in my class because the kids are always yelling and the teacher doesn’t know how to teach so thank you for single handedly teaching me about this so I don’t fail

I'll take $500 on Walpole behind the shouting of the order to fire.

In my US history class, we did a mock trial for Capt. Preston’s case. Me and one friend were John Adams and another two were Robert Pain. We won the case

These soldiers deserve praise for how long they held their fire. Wearing no armor and being pelted by rocks and clam shells by a animalistic crowd, must have been terrifying

John Adam's chubby, dopey face is the highlight of this episode.

Can we just bring back tricorne hats? Everyone get one and just act like it's normal, we've been sleeping on this for too long.

John Adams was the fucking man. Super underrated founding father. One thing left out in this episode is that he single-handedly drafted the Massachusetts Constitution, which is not only the longest-living constitution in history, but also provided a template for the US Federal Constitution. Literally the exact same system of checks and balances. dabs for John Adams

“Look how they massacred my boy,”

this vid helped me with a slide show so much thank you so much!!!

Thank you for bringing up both sides of this event. Too often we see history as black and white, good and bad, right and wrong, and forget that people in history were still people. They had points of view and internal justifications of their own.

Americans: "Fire! Fire! Fire!" British: *opens fire* Americans: [Shocked Pikachu face]

This actually clears up a lot of questions I had since I was a child.