Popular legend named it “the shot heard ‘round the world”, but on the morning of April 19, 1775, the shot that began America’s War of Independence seemed like a regrettable nuisance to British officers commanding the ‘redcoats’ marching through Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts. The events of that fateful day astounded and disturbed the British, who soon realized they had badly misjudged the colonists’ mentality and mood.
