In his Prologue, while summarizing the events that led to the Revolution, Atkinson writes: Rick Atkinson, in The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777, his first magisterial volume of the planned “Revolution” trilogy, describes just how those tensions developed and the early years of the war. Emerson’s poem describes “the shot heard round the world” fired by Patriots at the North Bridge in what is now Charlestown, in northwestern Boston, Massachusetts. Tensions had been building for many years between residents of the thirteen American colonies and the British authorities, particularly in Massachusetts. The poem “ Concord Hymn” by Ralph Waldo Emerson paid tribute to the famous Battles of Lexington and Concord, the first official military engagements between Britain and the colonies in the American Revolutionary War (1775-83).
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