What was the first battle of the war known as "the shot heard round the world"?

Answer 1

Lexington
The war was the Revolutionary War
The battle is better referred to as Lexington and Concord but they where fought separately

Answer 2

It was the battle of Lexington and Concord.

the war was the American Revolutionary War

"the shot heard round the world" was not a battle or a war, but an actual shot that started the battle, and the war, from an unknown source

Answer 3

while Lexington and Concord took place on the same day, Glenn has it right.Lexington was a quick rout; Concord much more of a battle in that the two sides held their lines and the Minutemen drove the British off......and the quote is indeed from Emerson, writing about Concord bridge.
" that rude bridge that spanned the Aprils' flood
Where the embattled farmers stood;
and fired the shot heard round the world"

and anywhere that people inspired by Americans stand for their rights and their freedoms.....from Concord that day to Beijing and Baghdad today and God knows where tomorrow.that shot still echoes..

Answer 4

Trick question...."The shot heard 'round the world" is from a stanza written by ? Emerson ? who happened to live next to the North Bridge in Concord where the first firing on the
British started- a regiment fired on a British company that had fired on them, driving them off the Bridge.
The first FIGHTING started at Lexington, when the British opened fire on the American militia paraded on the green.
The first BATTLE started when the British left Concord and reached Miriams corner outside of town, where they were attacked in force by the Americans, and continued to be attacked the rest of the day along their march.

Answer 5

"the shot heard around the world"

Always related that with the Ist World War - the assasination of the Archduke Ferdinand of Austria - Hungary set in motion a chain of events that led to the WW 1.

Answer 6

That would be the Battle of Lexington in April 1775, discussed here on Schoolhouse Rock:

http://www.schoolhouserock.tv/Shot.html

Answer 7

Lexington and Concord in the revolutionary war. No one knows who fired the first shot though.

Answer 8

World War 1 where the arch duke was shot

Answer 9

Lexington and Concord, first battle of the American Revolution

Answer 10

ya lexington and concord where the british and american forces stood off and someone fired the first shot that started the civil war (noone knows witch side fired it)