THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 1775 1783
LEXINGTON CONCORD AND BUNKER HILL THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION BEGINS
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Shot Heard Round the World
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Battle of Dorchester Heights
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Battle of Bunker Hill
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Boston Massacre
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Detailed explanation-1: -The militiamen hustled to Concord’s North Bridge, which was being defended by a contingent of British soldiers. The British fired first but fell back when the colonists returned the volley. This was the “shot heard ‘round the world” later immortalized by poet Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Detailed explanation-2: -Lexington and Concord: The Shot Heard ‘Round the World.
Detailed explanation-3: -"The Shot Heard ‘Round the World” is a phrase that refers to the opening shot of the battles of Lexington and Concord on April 19, 1775, which began the American Revolutionary War and led to the creation of the United States of America.
Detailed explanation-4: -Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote that immortal line in his 1837 Concord Hymn, but what is perhaps most intriguing about that fateful shot is that no one knows for sure who fired it. Eyewitness accounts with differing opinions about the opening shot abound.
Detailed explanation-5: -Major Buttrick of Concord shouted, “For God’s sake, fire!” and the Minute Men replied with their own volley, killing three British soldiers and wounding nine others. This volley is the volley considered “the shot heard round the world.” The rest of the British troops retreated back to town.