Further away, from Salem and Marblehead militia companies, each more well trained than those in the Concord
     area, began their journey to Boston. Just one-half hour after the British return to the city, via Boston Neck, these
     two militia arrived. Had they been just an hour sooner, over half of the British contingent in Massachusetts would
     have been cut off from supplies, and, perhaps, defeated. Boston found that she could rely on the rest of
     Massachusetts.

   The day's final toll: 273 regular casualties, including 73 killed, 174 wounded and 26 missing; among the colonists, 95 casualties, including 49 killed, 41 wounded and five missing. That night the Crown forces ferried their wounded across the Charles River to Boston and evacuated Percy's and Smith's exhausted men while a cold April rain fell.
 

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