Grave of British Soldiers - Concord, MA
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The roadside grave of British soldiers killed in the Battle of Concord is locate on the east end of the North Bridge in Minuteman National Historic Park in Concord, MA.
Waymark Code: WM17AC9
Location: Massachusetts, United States
Date Posted: 01/13/2023
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A vertical stone embedded in a rock retaining wall marks the roadside grave of British soldiers who died in the Battle of Concord at the beginning of the Revolutionary War. The stone contains four lines of the poem by James Russell Lowell “Lines suggested by the graves of the two English soldiers on Concord Battleground”. The title of Lowell's poem suggest that this is the final resting place of two British soldiers.
The stone is inscribed:
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
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Usually you will find the grave decorated with British flags and sometimes guarded by a person in the uniform of a British soldier.
“Lines suggested by the graves of the two English soldiers on Concord Battleground”
by James Russell Lowell
“What brought them here they never knew,
They fought as suits the English breed:
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…”