My two week absence was due to business travels that included London, and I came across the Garden of Remembrance of the Royal Fusiliers at St. Sepulchre Without Newgate. Here it is, with the Old Bailey across the way.
The website for the Royal Fusiliers Museum (http://www.fusiliermuseumlondon.org) tells us this infantry regiment was raised at the Tower of London in 1685. The 7th Royal Fusiliers participated significantly in the American Revolution, from the defense of Quebec on December 31, 1775 through the campaign in New Jersey and New York, to the southern theater, not returning to England until 1783. The garden is a reminder of the human toll taken in the Revolution on both sides.
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