The statements that describe the colonists' testimony are A) They believed Captain Preston gave the soldiers orders to fire and B) They thought the soldiers had started the conflict.
What had started as a street fight in the city of Boston, Massachusetts ended up being one of the worst episodes before the Revolutionary War: the Boston Massacre. On March 5, 1770, angry people from Boston insulted and threw rocks to a British soldier. The response was that British soldiers opened fire and killed five Bostonians. Other colonists were wounded.
