Note 316 — BRITISH KILLED, WOUNDED, PRISONERS AND MISSING.[316]
Reading edition
I am under obligations to the Military Secretary of the English War Office for a copy of the official returns of Gen. Gage of his losses on April 19, 1775, accompanied by the following:
"WAR OFFICE
"The Military Secretary begs to inform Mr. Frank W. Coburn with reference to his letter of the 27th November last, addressed to the late Commander in Chief, that the only information available on the subject of the casualties sustained by the British Troops during the action at Lexington on 19th April, 1775, is contained in the Lords' Gazette of 6-10 June, 1775, an extract of which is enclosed.
"WAR OFFICE, "25th Sept., 1901."
"MR. FRANK W. COBURN, "Lexington, Massachusetts."