Concord’s Minuteman statue dates from 1875.

It looms in Minute Man National Park, which marks the first two battles of the Revolution.

Located on the Lexington Green, the Revolutionary Monument is the nation’s oldest intact war memorial. It was dedicated on July 4, 1799.

In 1835, remains of soldiers who died in the Battle of Lexington there were transferred to the rear of the monument.

Erected in 1900 and depicting militia Captain John Parker, the statue looms at one end of Lexington Common, which is situated among the scene of the first battle in the Revolutionary War.

This statue of a solder in a small park where Concord Avenue and Garden Street intersect commemorates those who served during the Spanish-American War as well as during the occupation of the Philippines and parts of China.

Alice Ruggles Kitson designed it (and many like it around the commonwealth and the U.S.).

George Washington’s army seized these three cannons after the British evacuated the Boston area in March 1776.

Completed in 1871, this monument on Cambridge Common commemorating the city’s war dead includes a statue at the top of a Civil War soldier and a bronze of President Lincoln below.

Twin brothers Cyrus and Darius Cobb designed it.

The 27-foot monument was unveiled in 1871 to commemorate the Civil War contributions of the then-Town of West Roxbury.

Finished in 1877, the hall continues as a monument to those Harvard students and alum who died fighting for the United States during the Civil War (Confederate casualties are not mentioned).

George Washington ordered three batteries to be built for cannon aimed at British-occupied Boston across the river.

These mounds are what’s left, the last reminder dating uninterrupted to the 18th century of the Continental Army’s Cambridge presence.

The cut metal figures in the park include four meant to represent Continental Army soldiers.

Located in the Back Bay Fens and erected in 1949, this monument built around a winged Victory memorializes the more than 3,000 Bostonians who died in Second World War.

Completed in 1877 on the highest point on Boston Common, the memorial honors Bostonians who fought for the United States during the Civil War.

Unveiled in 1903, this statue outside of the Massachusetts State House commemorates Joseph Hooker, who commanded the Army of the Potomac in 1863 and famously declared, “May God have mercy on General Lee, for I will have none.”

The sculpture commemorating the Civil War role of the 54th Massachusetts, the first all-black regiment in the American army, and that of its commander, Robert Gould Shaw, took sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens nearly 14 years to complete.

It was unveiled in 1897. It is due to be removed in spring 2020 for several months of restoration work.

The monument commemorates the first major battle of the Revolutionary War on June 17, 1775. It was technically a British win, though the steadfastness of American soldiers signaled a longer conflict to come.

The 221-foot obelisk dates from 1842 and its interior is open most days for climbing; and there’s a museum across the street dedicated to the battle and the surrounding Charlestown neighborhood.

Dating from 1872, this granite memorial commemorates U.S. soldiers and sailors from Charlestown who fought in the Civil War.

It is located in the same field where colonial minutemen trained during the Revolution.

Honoring the world’s oldest naval vessel still afloat (born: 1797), the museum especially chronicles Old Ironsides role in the War of 1812.

The ship itself is available for tours.

Established in 2006, this garden was the first public memorial to those killed during the Second Iraq War and the war in Afghanistan.

To this day, whenever an American is killed serving in Iraq or Afghanistan, an Old North Church gardener adds a nameless dog tag to the memorial.

The memorial to the more than 1,500 Massachusetts casualties in the war—and the dozens still missing—is located in the Charlestown Navy Yard and was finished in 1993.

Located at the center of Thomas park, this marble monument dating from 1902 commemorates “a battle that never happened,” according to the City of Boston.

That is, the British ceded the heights to George Washington’s fortified troops there, and evacuated Boston in March 1776.

This granite monument dates from 2006, and honors those from Dorchester killed during the Vietnam War.

This 50-foot, five-sided obelisk honors service members with Massachusetts ties who have died fighting since the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.

The memorial, which was rededicated in May 2019, also includes what its designers called a Memorial Grove.

The Castle Island monument dating from 1993 honors the 20 Southie men who died in the early 1950s war.