The Boston Massacre - Snow and Gunpowder
Added 2019-03-21 14:01:00 +0000 UTCBoston, 1770.
A frigid winter night. A British sentry strikes a local citizen. Civilians begins to gather. Reinforcements arrive to back up the young sentry. Insults and snowballs escalate. Then out of the darkness comes a shout: “FIRE!”
Comments
More like the movie set fight from Mel Brooks' "Blazing Saddles" :-)
weirdo123
2019-03-30 20:15:11 +0000 UTCIf anything I thought that it was more in favor of the British.
Ethel_Mezezi
2019-03-25 19:04:37 +0000 UTCI'm English and I didn't feel any Offence at all watching this.
Martin Verran
2019-03-24 15:15:09 +0000 UTCThe Question in such a Reality being, would said Barroom Brawl help Turn Public Opinion against the Sons of Liberty by making them seem more like Violent Thugs rather than Freedom Fighters?
Martin Verran
2019-03-24 15:05:02 +0000 UTCHaha, I love the image of a diplomatic tea party erupting into a barroom brawl. Sounds like a great scene for short film. - A
Extra History
2019-03-23 19:44:11 +0000 UTCWell that video was biased as hell. Was the cartoonist specifically instructed 'Make the British look as evil as possible?' The bare bones of what happened are clear, but the precise sequence of events that lead to the shots being fired is not something well established in history. There are too many contradictory eye witness statements for it to be otherwise. Maybe Extra History should make it a bit more clear when they're moving away from 'what we know happened' and more into 'what we want to be true'.
ANTIcarrot
2019-03-23 18:29:22 +0000 UTCThe Kittens would have been most disPURRleased by both side's behaviour, had they been around at that Time.
Martin Verran
2019-03-23 15:55:09 +0000 UTCYeah, glad to see we've grown past that since the eighteenth - oh wait . . .
Tiberia Prima
2019-03-23 15:54:58 +0000 UTCFake news and clickbait work, unfortunately.
Wesley Wu
2019-03-23 15:32:46 +0000 UTCAlternate History Idea: what if, Following the Boston Tea Party, the Royalist Governor, Thomas Hutchinson, Organised his Own, far more Civilised Tea Party to try and mend Relations between the Royalists and the American Colonists. Then, the Sons of Liberty arrive, again in Disguise, and start smashing up Tables and Chairs, and a fight ensues between the party goers and the Sons of Liberty, attracting the attention of a Group of Redcoats who Decide to find out what all the Commotion is about.
Martin Verran
2019-03-23 12:00:07 +0000 UTC*dabs for John Adams*
LeoZiggy
2019-03-22 18:14:31 +0000 UTCWell done. 👍👍
weirdo123
2019-03-22 14:32:01 +0000 UTCUwU
chris
2019-03-22 03:37:10 +0000 UTCHuzzah. My hometown finally gets featured! 😃
Vral
2019-03-21 18:06:17 +0000 UTCmmmm a tragic event twisted by biased news sources to push political agendas mmmm this is sounding all to familiar in this day and age.
Jacob Ashton
2019-03-21 17:50:17 +0000 UTCProbably not so much a "Massacre" as a "Brawl in the Snow Involving Panicking Soldiers."
Martin Verran
2019-03-21 16:10:49 +0000 UTC
