Boston Schoolboys Protest is held.
January 31, 1775
(Jan.) The boys protest destruction of their sled run by British soldiers who dig up and throw ashes on the route outside the home of Gen. Frederick Haldimand, which is located on the site of today’s Old City Hall. When the complaint is passed on to Gen. Thomas Gage, he writes in a letter, “The very children here draw in a love of liberty with the air they breathe.” The students’ protest is commemorated in a painting by Henry Bacon in 1875.*
Sources
- Philbrick, Nathaniel