Boston Massacre
This is the approximate site of the Boston Massacre, one of the events directly precipitating the Revolutionary War.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Massacre
It's an interesting history, although not quite in the ways that Americans generally choose to remember it. My take on the Revolutionary War has always been that the US was on the wrong side of it. In the Boston Massacre, you've got an unorganized mob who spent the better part of a day taunting a small, but armed, group of soldiers and deliberately attempting to provoke a response. Shooting civilians is of course a bad thing for armed soldiers to do, but the incident is hardly representative of British "tyranny" over the colonies.
Birthday trip to Boston. Never been there before, and it turns out, the middle of January may not be the best possible time to visit it. But I still had a good time!
Sony Nex 6, Rokkor 45mm f2.
Boston Massacre
This is the approximate site of the Boston Massacre, one of the events directly precipitating the Revolutionary War.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Massacre
It's an interesting history, although not quite in the ways that Americans generally choose to remember it. My take on the Revolutionary War has always been that the US was on the wrong side of it. In the Boston Massacre, you've got an unorganized mob who spent the better part of a day taunting a small, but armed, group of soldiers and deliberately attempting to provoke a response. Shooting civilians is of course a bad thing for armed soldiers to do, but the incident is hardly representative of British "tyranny" over the colonies.
Birthday trip to Boston. Never been there before, and it turns out, the middle of January may not be the best possible time to visit it. But I still had a good time!
Sony Nex 6, Rokkor 45mm f2.