The Battle of Golden Hill was a clash between British soldiers and the Liberty Boys in the American colonies that occurred on January 19, 1770, in New York City. Along with the Boston Massacre and the
Print from 1884 commemorating the Battle of Golden Hill
Battle of Golden Hill, by Charles M. Lefferts, circa 1919–1920
The Boston Massacre, known in Great Britain as the Incident on King Street, was a confrontation on March 5, 1770 in the prelude to the American Revolution in Boston, in what was then the colony of the
Battle of Golden Hill
…was a clash between British soldiers and the Liberty Boys in the American colonies that occurred on January 19, 1770, in New York City. Along with the Boston Massacre and the Gaspee affair, the event was one of the early violent incidents in what would become the American Revolution. During the imperial crisis with…
The Bloody Massacre by Paul Revere, a 1770 engraving depicting the Boston Massacre in March 1770
Old State House in Boston, the capital of the Province of Massachusetts during the colonial era from 1713 to 1776; the cobblestone circle is labeled "Site of the Boston Massacre", but the Boston Massacre occurred nearby on what now is a busy Boston street.
A variation of Paul Revere's famous engraving, produced just prior to the American Civil War, which emphasizes Crispus Attucks, the black man in the center who became an important symbol for abolitionists.
A grave marker for the Granary Burying Ground in Boston, where those killed in the Boston Massacre were buried