Anonymous ID: da7ca4 April 19, 2024, 3:02 p.m. No.20749180   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>9197 >>9207 >>9218 >>9221 >>9235 >>9265 >>9287

The Shot Heard Round the World

 

The American Revolutionary War began on April 19, 1775, with a battle between British soldiers and American revolutionaries at Concord and Lexington in Massachusetts. The first shot of the war - the so-called "shot heard 'round the world" is not actually known to history. The term comes from a poem, "Concord Hymn", by Ralph Waldo Emerson:

 

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