Who fired the shot heard round the world? the british or the american colonists?

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american revolution. this was the very first shot.

Answer 1

To be a true Revolution, the American colonist needed to have fired the shot heard round the world.  It was the act of difiance against a trirant of a King.  While the British may have fired first that day, an American shot had to send the message, The Revolution starts here!  

Answer 2

both heard it at the same time.

the colonists heard it when they killed british soldiers.

the british heard it right before they were killed.

Answer 3

British, I believe. Boston Massacre?

Answer 4

no one knows

Answer 5

Some American farmers in a battle with the British, at Concord, Massachusetts, on April 19, 1775. That battle was the beginning of the American Revolution.

This is  the way Emerson said it, in his poem "Concord Hymn."

The Concord Hymn

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1837)

By the rude bridge that arched the flood,

     Their flag to April's breeze unfurled;

Here once the embattled farmers stood;

     And fired the shot heard round the world.

The foe long since in silence slept;

     Alike the conqueror silent sleeps,

     And Time the ruined bridge has swept

     Down the dark stream that seaward creeps.

On this green bank, by this soft stream,

     We place with joy a votive stone,

That memory may their deeds redeem,

     When, like our sires, our sons are gone.

O Thou who made those heroes dare

     To die, and leave their children free, --

Bid Time and Nature gently spare

     The shaft we raised to them and Thee.

Answer 6

The British.  They thought they would end the war before it started.  The 'Shot heard round the world'  was in Lexington, Mass.

Answer 7

No one knows who fired the first shot at Lexington...which is not "The shot heard 'round the world" which was shot at Concord bridge.  It is from a poem by EWmerson who lived next to the bridge.

  At Lexington, the British marched to the square, the troops going to the right around the church that then stood on the corner, and the officers going to the left.  A shot was heard, the British opened fire.  No one ever determined who fired that shot.  The fighting stopped when the militia fled.

  At Concord, the militia saw the smoke from the British burning whatever military stores they had found in Concord, and decided to march into town to stop them from burning the town.  The Brit company guarding the bridge opened fire, and the Colonel of the militia told his men "Fire boys, fire, for God's sake fire!"  and the men (in column, not in line) opened up and drove the Brits off the bridge.  The fighting stopped when the Brits moved back to town and the militia moved to the North east side of town.

  The real fighting began when the Brits left town and were ambushed at Merriam's corner just outside of town, where a creek forced the Brits to all get on the road and go thru the noarrow place.

Answer 8

the british were the greater colonists

Answer 9

americans at the battle on lexington green it was called the shot heard around the world due to the fact the Americans were rebelling against the greatest country in the world at the time.

Answer 10

no one knows.  

Answer 11

In popular culture, the phrase is often connected with the mystery of the literal first musket shot of the war. This occurred in Lexington earlier on the morning of April 19. It is not known whether a soldier of the British Army or a colonial militiaman fired this first shot of the Battle of Lexington and Concord. One theory of this shot is that it was actually fired at Asael Porter a local farmer who had been stopped by the British earlier in the day then tried to escape and was shot at about the same time as the battle of Lexington began.

The phrase originates from the opening stanza of Ralph Waldo Emerson's Concord Hymn (1837), and describes the impact of the battle at Old North Bridge in Concord, Massachusetts, on April 19, 1775. The entire stanza is:

"By the rude bridge that arched the flood,

Their flag to April's breeze unfurled,

Here once the embattled farmers stood

And fired the shot heard round the world."

It is often thought that "firing the shot" was meant to represent the beginning of a struggle for freedom against perceived tyranny, and the "hearing" represents the worldwide spread of this struggle with the American Revolution serving as an example.

I hope this helps. Good Luck.