The Quiz: Where did the first battle of the American Revolution take place?
Wilmington, North Carolina
Ticonderoga, New York
Williamsburg, Virginia
Lexington, Massachusetts
“The shot heard round the world,” a phrase coined by poet Ralph Waldo Emerson, was fired on April 19, 1775, during the Battles of Lexington and Concord. It occurred just after dawn during a skirmish between about 700 British soldiers and 500 members of the Colonial militia, marking the start of the Revolutionary War. The site is now part of the Minute Man National Historical Park.
The correct answer to this quiz is Lexington, Massachusetts.