This figure played a significant role in nudging the American Colonies closer to Revolutionary War. The 29th Regiment of Foot disembarked in Boston in September 1768 and their quartering in the busy harbor city – coupled with high-profile patrolling duties – only heightened the tension between England and the American colonists.
On the evening of March 5th, 1770 – following a tense series of stand-offs between the men of the 29th and growing numbers of Bostonians – a mob estimated at 300-400 attacked a small unit under the command of Captain Thomas Preston. In response, the Redcoats fired into the mob resulting in the deaths of five people and earned them the nickname of the ‘vein-openers’.
The encounter became known as The Boston Massacre and was to help light the slow-fuse of Revolutionary fervor that finally found expression in the Signing of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776.
Single Figure in a gloss finsh Scale 54mm / 1:32
