On February/ 22 / 1770, the British …show more content…
An American apprentice who name was Edward Garrick, he was insulting a Capitan John Goldfish. Edward thought that the officer had failed to pay his bill to Garrick’s worker. Hugh White left he’s posed and hit Edward in the head with the bottom of his gun. At this point a couple start approaching what was going one in their surroundings. Henry Knox keep telling the troops “if you fired, you will die for it”. The solder Hugh White intervened in to court, and beat the apprentice Garrick for his disrespect to a social superior. There’s around 60 people on the protested, the mop was lead from the African - American crispus actucks. Protesting Hugh White, the church bells are going on the people are getting together to insult white. They pilt him with snow balls and rock, they tainted white challenged him to fire his weapon. Because of the assassination of Snaider was still going around, Colonel William Dalrymple demand strict orders to his solders to risk no provocations because of the civilians and not to open fire on civilians under any circumstances. By this point when the British get a hold of what’s going on, someone runs back and