WORLD HISTORY

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: -Facing an impending rebellion, British General Thomas Gage decided to seize weapons and gun powder being stored in Concord, Massachusetts, twenty miles northwest of Boston, to prevent violence. Patriot spies soon got wind of Gage’s plan.

Detailed explanation-3: -No one knows who fired the first shot, but, in “Concord Hymn, ” Ralph Waldo Emerson described it as “the shot heard round the world” because of the importance the Revolutionary War and the United States would have in world history.

Detailed explanation-4: -In Lexington and Concord, the minutemen were warned of an oncoming force of 900 British men. They arrived in an open field, a shot was fired and its origin is unknown. It became known as the shot heard around the war.

Detailed explanation-5: -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.