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Captain Thomas Preston (c. 1722 – c. 1798)[1] was an officer of the 29th Regiment of Foot who was present at the Boston Massacre on March 5, 1770.[2] He was acquitted of all charges in a trial held in Boston, Massachusetts. Future United States President John Adams was his attorney. Two of his men, Hugh Montgomery and Mathew Kilroy, were found guilty of manslaughter and branded on the thumb with a hot iron. After his trial, Preston retired from the army and reportedly settled in Ireland, though Adams recalled seeing him in London in the 1780s.
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Thomas Preston (British Army officer)
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they say that he said that he gave the order to fire at the mob -
Anthony Garcia Thomas Preston was the British army officer who was the man that supposedly commanded to fire on innocent men. but in reality its was a mob who started attacking the regulars hoping they would shoot. one of the mob man threw a club at the regulars and when it hit the regular he fell and it discharged and killed a man. that's how the Boston massacre happen.
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