Paul Revere’s 1770 engraving succinctly tells the story of innocent people killed by the vicious power of their own rulers.

 

This anonymous watercolor from the late eighteenth century puts a military family in the middle of a long column of redcoats.

 

 

A mid-eighteenth-century embroidery shows Boston Common as a place for both courting couples and army tents.

 

This idealized view of Boston emphasizes the town’s many steeples, proclaiming the godliness of its inhabitants.

 

 

Troops and civilians share the Boston Common in the first weeks after the army’s arrival in 1768.

 

Soldiers relax near tents in a London park while women do laundry and children and pets play.

 

 

Fathers playing with children and women cleaning clothes and nursing babies lend a domestic flavor to army barracks.

 

Two women flirt with a soldier while washing laundry in a military camp.