lobsterback


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British soldier

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Many colonists threw eggs at the soldiers, whom they called "lobsterbacks," and trained their dogs to attack them.
The Boston massacre: on a cold winter's night in 1770, a regiment of British troops fired into an angry mob of Bostonians, killing five people. Boston demanded justice--but who was at fault?
The myth tells us that these American marksmen, skilled at shooting deer, now did the same to the hated British lobsterbacks.
Arming America: The Origins of a National Gun Culture
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