On march 5, 1770, a crowd of boston boys and men surrounded a number of british soldiers and began taunting and cursing them while they pelted them with snowballs. order quickly broke down, and the frightened soldiers fired into the crowd. when the shooting ended, several people were dead and more were wounded. this engraving by paul revere, a leader of the boston sons of liberty, was sent throughout the colonies in the following weeks to arouse anti-british feelings. 1. how does the engraving tell a different story from the above description of the boston massacre? 2. where do you suppose the term "massacre" came from that describes this event?