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Episode 281: Declared Independence

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The Boston Massacre

The 1770 so-called Boston Massacre wasn't even a massacre. It wouldn't have happened had the British essentially sent soldiers to America with no real job to do, except this direct trouble. John Adams saw that as a great victory for the American claim that we really were capable of governing ourselves.

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