The events of April 19, 1775 rocked the world of the colonists. It would not be until sixty-three years later Ralph Waldo Emerson would declare the battle to be the “shot heard round the world,” but it was evident to all who survived the day that something fundamental in the world had changed. Unlike previous incidents, such as the Boston Massacre, for the first time British and American forces had fought and killed one another. Few, if any, could foresee it would take eight years, until the signing of the Treaty of Paris (1783), to finally settle the matter of American independence from Great Britain.
[Source.](https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/04/the_shot_heard_round_the_world.html)
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The events of April 19, 1775 rocked the world of the colonists. It would not be until sixty-three years later Ralph Waldo Emerson would declare the battle to be the “shot heard round the world,” but it was evident to all who survived the day that something fundamental in the world had changed. Unlike previous incidents, such as the Boston Massacre, for the first time British and American forces had fought and killed one another. Few, if any, could foresee it would take eight years, until the signing of the Treaty of Paris (1783), to finally settle the matter of American independence from Great Britain.
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