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Archaeologists found a handful of musket balls near a famed Revolutionary War bridge in Massachusetts — and they were likely fired by a colonial militia during a skirmish that later inspired the legendary phrase, “The Shot Heard Round the World.”
“It’s incredible that we can stand here and hold what amounts to just a few seconds of history that changed the world almost 250 years ago,” Minute Man Park Ranger and historic weapons specialist Jarrad Fuoss said in a“These musket balls can be considered collectively as ‘The Shot Heard Round the World,’ and it is incredible that they have survived this long,” he continued.
That’s where the militia shined, sending volleys into the charging British troops that sent them fleeing back to the town — and set the stage for a running battle that hounded the redcoats all the way back to Boston. Found pieces like discarded flints, fired musket balls or other artifacts of the Revolution give historians a glimpse into what actually happened that day, Wood said.The fight at the bridge inspired Ralph Waldo Emerson’s 1837 poem, in which he coined the famous phrase “The Shot Heard Round the World.”“This is the virtue of archaeology, when it tells us things no other record reveals,” he said.
They were likely made in the months before the fight, as houses in the area were stockpiled with locally-produced ammunition, Fuoss said.
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