Paul Revere's engraving of the Boston Massacre<span>, 1770. By the beginning of 1770, there were 4,000 British soldiers in </span>Boston<span>, a city with 15,000 inhabitants, and tensions were running high. ... A shot rang out, and then several soldiers fired their weapons.</span>
John Tyler he was the 10th president
Evans' interest in the island of Crete, which according to the Greek legend hosted an ancient civilization of "Minoans," was sparked by Heinrich Schliemann's discovery of legendary Troy. Like Schliemann, Evans was an amateur archaeologist, driven by his passion for mythology of the ancient world.
