Battle Green was an accident. Concord Bridge, a skirmish. But in the most brutal and deadly warfare of April 19, 1775, nearly 6,000 combatants fought hand to hand and house to house, the length and breadth of Menotomy. At the Foot of the Rocks, the British “regulars” encountered their worst nightmare: a nascent Continental Army.
Join the Arlington Historical Society for its April lecture by A. Michael Ruderman.
Image courtesy of the Robbins Library Collection