Shot Heard Around the world The "shot heard 'round the world" was a momentous event which took place on April 19th, 1776. The skirmish, the shot set in motion only lasted five minutes. Despite its short duration, this battle started the American Revolution. General Thomas Gage, the military governor of Massachusetts, had received orders from England to arrest Sam Adams and John Hancock, two of the leading Colonial revolutionaries. Gage ordered that soldiers be sent to arrest the men, after which the solders, stationed in Boston, were to continue to Concord to seize and destroy the military supplies that the colonists were keeping there. Word got out among the Colonists about what General Gage was planning. The Colonists sent two minutemen, Paul Revere and William Dawes, to warn the inhabitants of Concord. This was the beginning on the two's famous "midnight ride." "The shot heard 'round the world" was fired at Lexington Green, a village common in the town of Lexington, which is on the route from Boston to Concord.
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