The Complete Battle Road Journey

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Remembering the Fallen

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The Fallen

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History of British Boston

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Facts

Fact or Fiction?

Sayings

1. (2 soldiers) North Bridge, Concord


GRAVE OF BRITISH SOLDIERS

THEY CAME THREE THOUSAND MILES AND DIED

TO KEEP THE PAST UPON ITS THRONE

UNHEARD, BEYOND THE OCEAN TIDE,

THEIR ENGLISH MOTHER MADE HER MOAN

APRIL 19, 1775

 

Verse by James Russell Lowell


British Graves at Left

One of the soldiers was killed and the other was wounded.

From The Lexington-Concord Battle Road (Concord Chamber of Commerce):

“About a half hour later, a boy, hatchet in hand, had crossed the bridge to join the force of Americans. As he went by, the wounded soldier was sitting up and trying to raise himself to his knees. Whereupon the boy, doubtless under the spell of the exciting action that had just taken place and possibly fearing the soldier meant to do him harm, decided to finish the unfortunate victim by sinking the sharp blade of his weapon into his skull.

The troops of Captain Parsons returning from Barrett’s farm, seeing the corpse thus mangled and bloody, originated accounts of exaggerated barbarism and cruelty.  It soon became popular in England to believe that the Rebels, in Indian fashion, scalped and cut off the ears of their adversaries.”

 

The identity of the “boy” was likely Ammi White, a 20 or 21 year old minute man in the Concord Minute Man Company.

Mark Nichipor (a former park ranger) identified the three privates killed at North Bridge as belonging to the Light Infantry company of the 4th Regiment of Foot:

 

            Thomas Smith

            Patrick Gray

            James Hall