Editor’s note: On April 19, 1775, The American Revolutionary began. It has been referred to as the “the shot heard round the world.” But no one knows when and where the first shot occurred. The phrase actually originated from the "Concord Hymn", by Ralph Waldo Emerson:
"By the rude bridge that arched the flood,
Their flag to April’s breeze unfurled,
Here o…
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