Elm Brook Hill, “Bloody Angle,” Lincoln

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.

The much voluble Lt. William Sutherland recalled that, “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 . . .” The fire converged on the British column causing Regulars to drop by ones and twos as the column pressed on. 

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