The Complete Battle Road Journey

A Truly Revolutionary Experience

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Going to Lexington

2 - 3 AM

3 - 5 AM

5 - 6 AM

6 - 8 AM

8 - 10 AM

Going Back to Boston

Remembering the Fallen

Grave Site 1

Gave Sites 2-3

Grave Site 4

Grave Site 5

Grave Site 6

Grave Site 7

Grave Site 8

Grave Site 9

Grave Site 10-11

Grave Site 12

Grave Site 13-14

Grave Site 15-16

Grave Site 17

Grave Site 18

The Fallen

Sources

The Royal Road

History of British Boston

The Royal Road Mapped Out

Site 1 (a-c)

Site 2

Site 3

Site 4

Site 5

Site 6

Site 7

site 8

Site 9

Site 10

Royal Road Sources

Facts

Fact or Fiction?

Sayings

Diverse Interesting Sources of Information, Acknowledgements & etc:

Weston, Jr., George F., Boston Ways, High, By and Folk, Beacon Press, 1957.

[This is a very enjoyable book of stories about Boston's past, told through the landmarks that remain in city.]

 

Hollister, J, Rare Revolutionary cannon returns to minuteman park, Concord Magazine (http://www.concordma.com/magazine/spring05/cannons.html).

Vrtis, Catherine Ann Peckinpaugh, Gentleman Johnny Plays War:  John Burgoyne and The Blockade of Boston, Master's Thesis, 2007, Virginia Commonwealth University.

[The dissertation includes the text of songs from the finale of The Blockade of Boston; available on-line.]

 

Landwave.org - A group creating an installation at the site of Boston neck (the intersection of Washington Street and East Berkeley Street)

ToryTrail.org - Six historic homes that belonged to loyal citizens in the Boston area.  Colonial Loyalist Alliance of Massachusetts c/o Golden Ball Tavern, 662 Boston Post Road, PO Box 223, Weston, MA  02493

Holmes, Oliver Wendell, "Grandmother's Story of Bunker Hill (As She Saw it From the Belfry)".

[Written for the 100th anniversary in 1875.  The poem was illustrated by Howard Pyle.]

 

His Majesty's 10th Regiment of Foot (www.redcoat.org) - inspiration, edification, information, support.

O'Connor, Thomas H., The Hub; Boston Past and Present, 2001.

[A well-researched and readable account of early Boston history by a Boston College Professor of History.]

 

Anderson, MT, The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume 1:  The Pox Party, 2008.

[A thought-provoking novel about a young African American man growing up as a slave in Boston during the revolution.  Volume 1 ends with Octavian running across the mud flats to Boston at low tide to escape the colonials who returned him to his master, in spite of his fighting on their side.  The British offered freedom to slaves who joined their cause.  Volume 2 (The Kingdom on the Waves) will be published in October.]

 

Special thanks to Thomas Monahan for the absolutely brilliant graphic design/logo and for his immense patience and support; to Jacob Klickstein for photography; and to Isaac Klickstein for fact checking.

Any errors are entirely the responsibility of Susan Lester.  If you have corrections, additions, comments, etc, please send them to her at slester@partners.org.