The Boston Massacre
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A Behind-the-Scenes Look At Paul Revere's Most Famous
Engraving
When Paul Revere first began selling his color prints of "The Bloody
Massacre perpetrated in King Street" in Boston, he was doing what any like-
minded patriot with his talents in 1770 would have done. Only, Paul Revere
did it faster a ....
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.... radical politicians. Paul Revere wasted no time in
capitalizing on the Massacre to highlight British tyranny and stir up anti-
British sentiment among his fellow colonists. As you will see, Revere's
historic engraving is long on political propaganda and short on accuracy or
aesthetics.
Notice how the British Grenadiers are shown standing in a straight
line shooting their rifles in a regular volley, whereas when the
disturbance actually erupted both sides were belligerent and riotous ....
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