Concord

CONCORD

"The shot heard round the world"

from the Hymn, Sung at the Completion of the Concord Monument 

by 

Ralph Waldo Emmerson, 1836

R. W. Emmerson wrote this poem for the dedication of the memorial of the Battle of Concord. It is said that the first shots of the Revolutionary War in 1775 that finally led to the American colonies's independence from British rule. In April of this historic year 400 Minutemen from the colonial militia met 95 British soldiers on Old North Bridge, who marched to Concord from Boston to seize arms and supplies stored there by the colonists. Three British soldiers are supposed to have been killed in this skirmish. 

Next to Old North Bridge there are not only the obelisk Concord Monument and the soldier's graves but also the statue Minute Men. 

In front of the statue Minute Man.