EMERGENCE OF USA
THE AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY WAR AND ITS IMPACT
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Battle of Lexington
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Battle of Ticonderoga
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Battle of Concord
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Battle of Trenton
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Detailed explanation-1: -The first shots were fired just after dawn in Lexington, Massachusetts the morning of the 19th, the “Shot Heard Round the World.” The colonial militia, a band of 500 men, were outnumbered and initially forced to retreat.
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: -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-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.