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What did the poet Emerson mean by "the shot heard round the world"?

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When the poet Emerson said "the shot heard round the world", he was referring to the first shots fired in Lexington, Kentucky.  That was the first "shot" in the American Revolution in which the Colonial Americans fought the British for freedom from Britain.