Five people were slain in the Boston Massacre the British sent soldiers to rep as police. The first person to die in the American Revolution was a guy named Crispus Attucks who was a black man. He was shot and killed during the Boston Massacre and the first American killed. The war was led by George Washington who would lead us to a victory and later become president of the United States. The American Revolution is what really got us to where we are today this separated us from anybody especially Britain and after this victory we were seen as our own country. One thing that surprise me about this whole ordeal has to be the Boston Massacre. Usually you hear massacre you think about people being murder every where I mean literally bodies everywhere you look. And it turned out to be only five people were killed during the massacre and three died the same day the other two were killed later.