First martyrs of the American Revolution: 250th anniversary of The Boston Massacre On March 5, 1770, hundreds of angry colonists faced off against less than a dozen British soldiers in a city ...

While their images might not be immortalized on dollar bills or their stories ingrained into every high school syllabus, these lesser-known figures nonetheless played critical roles in the shaping of ...

The war for American independence had its first martyr. Many years later, when the Bunker Hill Monument was dedicated in 1843, John Quincy Adams refused to attend .

Crispus Attucks (1723-1770) Patriot of the American Revolution. On March 5, 1770, a group of 50 men gathered in Boston Common to protest the presence of British troops.