Which skirmish is remembered for the ‘shot heard round the world’?

Which skirmish is remembered for the ‘shot heard round the world’?

Just before dawn on 19 April 1775 seventy‑seven Massachusetts militiamen faced 700 British regulars on Lexington Green. A musket cracked—no one knows whose—and eight colonists lay dead.

British troops marched on to Concord but retreated under withering militia fire. The ‘shot heard round the world’ launched the American Revolution.

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