As I have mentioned before, Jordan's class is doing a fabulously experiential unit on Colonial Boston. Jordan is Captain Thomas Preston, who, as Jordan will explain to you, did not start the Boston Massacre. Here he is ready for school today.
The red coat is mine, the shirt is Dale's, the sword/belt/hat are from other costumes, and the boots belong to a friend. (Jordan now wears a size 7.5 in men's sizes, which is a 9.5 in women's, so borrowing a girlfriend's tall boots was not so simple!)
Captain Preston is famously pictured in this engraving by Paul Revere, with the sword raised, on the right.
Jordan, however, is critical of this picture:
Jordan: If you look in that picture Mommy who does it look like started the fight?
Me: Looks like the British started it.
Jordan: Right. And this makes us look very helpless, the colonists over here. But Mommy google "Boston Massacre" so I can show you another picture. [I did so, and he directed me to the one below.] See how this one is completely different? We do not look so helpless here. Captain Preston says that the colonists were yelling and throwing things at the soldiers but he never said to fire.
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