EMERGENCE OF USA
THE AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY WAR AND ITS IMPACT
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Boston
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Lexington and Concord
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New York
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Sleepy Hollow
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Detailed explanation-1: -Specifically, Emerson’s poem describes the first shots fired by Patriots at the North Bridge in what is now Charlestown, in northwestern Boston, Massachusetts.
Detailed explanation-2: -The British marched into Lexington and Concord intending to suppress the possibility of rebellion by seizing weapons from the colonists. Instead, their actions sparked the first battle of the Revolutionary War.
Detailed explanation-3: -April 19, 2020 marked the 245th anniversary of the first shot of the Revolutionary War – later called the “shot heard round the world” by American poet Ralph Waldo Emerson – at the Old North Bridge in Concord, Massachusetts.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Battles of Lexington and Concord, fought on April 19, 1775, kicked off the American Revolutionary War (1775-83).