Who coined the phrase “the shot heard round the world”?

American poet and philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson originated the phrase “the shot heard round the world” in his poem “Concord Hymn” (1836).

The poem memorialized the Battle of Lexington and Concord of 1775, the first battle of the War of Independence.

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