This last Saturday we went out for a hike on Battle Road Trail where the British troops in 1775 traveled from Boston to Concord to seize supplies colonists had stored. I remember reading about the Revolutionary War in history books but it does NOT seem as if this time in history had really happened when just reading it from a book. To stand in a place where Paul Revere was captured (doesn't this sound like a fictional character? He is very real!) to where one of the first battles in the Revolutionary War happened is very surreal. Not to mention the landscape is just beautiful.
British troops advancing across this field were caught in a vicious cross-fire during their retreat to Boston from Americans concealed in the woods.
Inscription. Some of the most intense fighting on April 19, 1775 occurred in this area, which later became known as “Bloody Angle.” Unlike most of the 18th-century Battle Road landscape, which was open farmland, this site had woods and bends in the road which allowed the Colonists to set up an ambush.
| Soldiers were often buried where they fell on the battlefield. This gravestone, located just in front of the marker, indicates that British soldiers were buried near this spot on April 19, 1775. There are markers just like these in many different places around Concord, MA. |
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