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Today, episode 34, Boston Massacre Fallout

and the Townsend acts were peeled, mostly.

So I ended last week with the British regulars having opened fire on a crowd,

leaving five colonists dead or dying.

The small squad of soldiers then hurried back to their barracks to await the consequences.

As soon as the threat of continued imminent violence ended,

Boston officials moved in to arrest those responsible. By 2 a.m. that night, the sheriff had arrested Captain Preston.

He arrested the other soldiers the following morning. On the morning of March 6, 1770, about 3,500 Bostonians met at

Fanial Hall to discuss the next steps. A group of radical leaders including Samuel Adams and John Hancock met with Governor

Hutchinson to demand the removal of all soldiers from Boston. Hutchinson did not

want to remove the soldiers and leave Boston in the hands of mob rule,

but at the same time he didn't want to be the one responsible for keeping the standing army in town.

So Hutchinson simply punted, saying that he had no authority to order the troops anywhere.

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