No one knows who fired “The Shot Heard Round The World,” but Captain John Parker was in charge of the militia forces in Lexington, Massachusetts, on April 19, 1775.
The force was ready to face the British troops who had marched from Boston to seize gunpowder the colonists had stored ahead of what was likely to be a rebellion in the colonies.
“Stand your ground,” Parker is said to have told the men, per the American Battlefield Trust. “Don’t fire unless fired upon, but if they mean to have a war, let it begin here.”…