You are asking about the Boston Massacre, but the event wasPropaganda for the colonists who were wanting to show a cause forleaving the British crown. Paul Revere drew a handbill to spin theevent into something much more than it really was. Most historybooks today show the drawing when writing about it. Other eventsbetween colonists and troops happened in other places, but youdon’t read about them. One reason is that Boston was the center ofanti British activists.