The first British casualties of the American Revolution were two soldiers killed on April 19, 1775 at North Bridge over the Concord River, at Concord, Massachusetts. These men are memorialized by a beautiful verse written by James Russell Lowell and inscribed on a granite stone.
They cane three thousand miles, and died
To keep the past upon the throne.
Unheard behind the ocean tide,
Their English mother made her moan.
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