While these were created some years after the events they depict, Paul Revere’s engraving of the Boston Massacre (photo above) was created in 1770 not long after the incident in March of that year.

In the years following the Boston Massacre, playwright Mercy Otis Warren wrote that "No previous outrage had given a general alarm, as the commotion on the fifth of March, 1770." Although the ...

The bloody massacre perpetrated in King - Street Boston on March 5th, 1770, by a party of the 29th Regt. / engrav'd printed & sold by Paul Revere, Boston ; re-engraved by Sidney L. Smith.