Because they believed they were provoked by the colonists who were throwing rocks and snowballs with them
Explanation:
- A young student, Edward Gerrish, approached a clerk on King Street to pay off his boss's debt. When he started yelling, English guard White left his guard outside the customs house to beat the boy.
- Gerrish escaped but soon returned with a few friends. Together, they started throwing snowballs, ice, and trash at the soldiers.
- Because of the conflict, the then officer, Captain Thomas Preston, brought in reinforcements of eight soldiers. The crowd of citizens got bigger and kept throwing things at the British soldiers.
- Captain Thomas Preston ordered the soldiers not to fire, but the soldiers probably did not hear him well and started firing at the citizens. In total, five Americans were killed and six were wounded.
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