“The Bluff,” as this sharp outcropping of rocky hillside on the western edge of Lexington is known, was the site of further fighting on April 19, 1775. The rearguard of British regulars was peppered with Patriot musket fire from the high ground as militia rushed into the valley before Fiske Hill. As local historian Frank Coburn recounted, “Many British were wounded, and many killed, along this part of Battle Road. A little way from the bluff, over the wall on the opposite side of the road and in a southerly direction, are graves of two.” Those graves are now marked with a stone and plaque placed by the National Park Service as part of the Battle Road Trail project in 2000.

This marker’s inscription reads:

Near Here Is Buried
A British Soldier
April 19, 1775