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Hello, and thanks for joining the Revolution 250, where we look at events that took place 250 years ago this week.

This is from the American Revolution podcast, but it's just a short midweek bonus episode to remind you about anniversaries from the Revolutionary War.

This week, we remember the fifth anniversary of the Boston Massacre.

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This week, we take a look at the fifth anniversary of the Boston Massacre. Now, you may be saying to

yourself, hey, isn't this just a sneaky way of looking at the 250th anniversary of an event when

you're supposed to be looking at 250th events? No, this is

not about the massacre itself. It's really about what happened in 1775 as Bostonians were

commemorating the fifth anniversary of that massacre. The original Boston Massacre took place on March 5th, 1770, when British

regulars fired on Boston civilians, who the soldiers argued were threatening them. Boston Patriots

used the event to underscore the fact that British policy was tyrannical, not based on the will of the

people. Rather, it was an attempt to compel submission

by force of arms. Every year following that massacre, a Patriot leader gave a public address

on the events of March 5th. In 1771, James Lovell gave an address which railed against

standing armies. He said that a professional soldier

was essentially reduced to a state of slavery and that slaves envy the freedom of others.

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