Elm Brook Hill, Lexington

Gun: British Army Officer’s Fusil. (Courtesy of Concord Museum. William Grice, Birmingham, England, 1765-1770, Gift of Mrs. Chandler, A2075)

British: Retreat of the British. (The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection, New York Public Library Digital Collections)

Reenactment: Reenactment of Battle Road, 2010. O'Shaughnessy, Paul. "Battle Road event 2010." Photograph. April 2010. Courtesy of University of Massachusetts Boston, Joseph P. Healey Library.

Beyond Hardy’s Hill, the road to Lexington dipped and then rose again on Elm Brook Hill, where it bent twice in an S-curve.

Militia and minute companies arranged themselves in ambush on both sides of the road and pressed the flanks and rear of Lt. Col. Smith’s column. At around 1:00 p.m., over 1,000 provincials converged on this site.

"Upon a height to my right hand a vast number of armed men drawn out in battalia order, I dare say near 1000 who on our coming nearer dispersed into the wood, & came as close to the road on our flanking parties as they possibly could, upon our ascending the height to the road gave us a very heavy fire, but some shot from the left hand drew my attention that way when I saw a much larger body drawn up to the left "

Lt. William Sutherland

Sources

“Elm Brook Hill,” 23 November 2021, National Park Service, https://www.nps.gov/mima/learn/historyculture/elm-brook-hill.htm