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Why do you think Ralph Waldo Emerson described the battle of concord as”fired a shot heard’round the world”?

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It was known as the the shot heard round the world because everybody had heard about it and it would change Americans history
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hat happened at that bridge was one of the events that marked the beginning of the American Revolution, armed resistance to the British occupation of the American colonies, the effects of which would change the order of the world
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