Thomas Preston
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Gender | Male |
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Nationality | British |
Commands held | 29th (Worcestershire) Regiment of Foot |
Job | Actor |
Books | Pandora's Trap: Presidential Decision Making and Blame Avoidance in Vietnam and Iraq |
Pandora's Trap | |
From Lambs to Lions: Future Security Relationships in a World of Biological and Nuclear Weapons | |
The President and His Inner Circle: Leadership Style and the Advisory Process in Foreign Affairs | |
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ID | 583264 |
Thomas Preston Life story
Thomas Preston was a British officer, a captain who served in Boston in the Province of Massachusetts Bay. He commanded troops in the Boston Massacre in 1770 and was tried for murder, but he was acquitted. Historians have never settled whether he ordered his men to fire on the colonists.