That was one of the reasons that led up to it, but the - "shot heard around the world"

Posted: Feb 24th, 2018 - 1:03 pm In Reply to: Wrong - historian

is what actually started it.

"The shot heard round the world" is a phrase referring to several historical incidents, particularly the opening of the American Revolutionary War in 1775 and the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria in 1914."

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