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In the days and weeks following the incident, a propaganda battle was waged between Boston's radicals and supporters of the government.

Both sides published pamphlets that told strikingly different stories, which were principally published in London in a bid to influence opinion there.

The Boston Gazette version of events, for example, characterized the massacre as part of an ongoing scheme to " quell a Spirit of Liberty ", and harped on the negative consequences of quartering troops in the city.