EMERGENCE OF USA
FOUNDATION OF AMERICAN COLONIES
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Battle of Bunker Hill
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Battle of Lexington and Concord
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Battle of Trenton
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -"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-2: -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.
Detailed explanation-3: -“Let it begin here, ” the men of Lexington said on the morning of April 19th.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Battles of Lexington and Concord on 19 April 1775, the famous ‘shot heard ‘round the world’, marked the start of the American War of Independence (1775-83). Politically disastrous for the British, it persuaded many Americans to take up arms and support the cause of independence.
Detailed explanation-5: -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.