Seven months had passed since the “horrid, bloody massacre” took place on the 5th of March. ... curiosity were more on the minds of everyone that night in King Street . ... In less than three hours, the jury reached a verdict.
The crowd strained forward in the Queen Street courtroom on October 17, 1770. Murmurs and rumblings of anger filled the air. Captain Thomas Preston, a British grenadier, shifted his feet nervously and felt the sweat rising to his brow. If the jury found him, and his men, guilty of murder as the indictment suggested, he could only expect death as a penalty. That is what these Bostonians wanted! The only hope for Preston and his men lay with this short, stocky country lawyer—a colonial American after all—John Adams, and his too young assistant Josiah Quincy.
Mesopotamia is thought to be one of the places where early civilization developed. It is a historic region of West Asia within the Tigris-Euphrates river system.
Crises and alliances often bring about great moments in history, and one such example would be the alliance system that existed after German unification in the 1900s.
