Shots were fired earlier that day at Lexington, Massachusetts, where eight Americans were killed and a British soldier was slightly wounded, but accounts of that event are confusing and contradictory, and the encounter has been described as a skirmish or a massacre rather than a battle. Historically, no single shot can be cited as the first shot of the battle or the war. 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. By the rude bridge that arched the flood,Īnd fired the shot heard round the world.
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