WORLD HISTORY

EMERGENCE OF USA

THE AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY WAR AND ITS IMPACT

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Which event marked the beginning of the Revolutionary War, the “shot heard ‘round the world”?
A
Battle of Saratoga
B
Battles of Lexington and Concord
C
Surrender at Yorktown
D
Treaty of Paris
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Battles of Lexington and Concord, (April 19, 1775), initial skirmishes between British regulars and American provincials, marking the beginning of the American Revolution.

Detailed explanation-2: -The phrase comes from the opening stanza of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s “Concord Hymn” (1837) and refers to the first shot of the American Revolution at the Old North Bridge in Concord, Massachusetts, where the first British soldiers fell in the battles of Lexington and Concord on April 19, 1775.

Detailed explanation-3: -Lexington and Concord: The Shot Heard ‘Round the World | American Battlefield Trust.

Detailed explanation-4: -DeCosta July 29, 1775. 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-5: -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.

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