British Redcoats Research Paper

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Your Honor and members of the Jury, I, Bailie Clark, am here to defend the British Redcoats as they are being charged with murder when, really, they acted in self defense. They are being charged with murder in the death of Crispus Attucks and four other laborers as there was a huge crowd bombarding the soldiers. We will now present to you the evidence that the British Redcoats did not commit murder.
The Boston Massacre a huge tragedy for not only the Bostonians but the British Redcoat soldiers as well. The British Redcoats were so scared of the angry Bostonians that they fired their guns in self defense. These angry people were throwing not only objects like snowballs, oyster shells, chunks of coal and sticks at the soldiers but insults