Robert Munroe (1712April 19, 1775) was a soldier from Cambridge Farm, later

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, notable as the third-highest ranking militia officer in the action at Lexington in the Battles of Lexington and Concord, one of the first eight Patriot fatalies in that conflict, and the first officer killed. At the time of his death, he was a militia

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, now primarily a naval rank in English-speaking countries, but formerly the lowest rank of infantry officer in both the British and United States armies.https://www.lexingtonhistory.org/uploads/6/5/2/1/6521332/spring_2019_-_faces_of_lexington_-_the_munroes.pdf

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1712 births 1775 deaths United States military personnel killed in the American Revolutionary War {{US-mil-bio-stub