Grave marker for British Soldiers beside the bridge at North Bridge, site of the Battle of Concord, Concord, MA, USA.

• Contributor: Maurice Savage / Alamy Stock Photo
• Image ID: HTD4P2
• File size: 49.3 MB (3.9 MB Compressed download)
• Releases: Model - no | Property - no
• Dimensions: 5091 x 3386 px | 43.1 x 28.7 cm | 17 x 11.3 inches | 300dpi
• Date taken: 3 September 2016
• Location: Concord, MA, United States

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Concord's North Bridge, where on April 19, 1775, colonial commanders ordered militia men to fire back at British troops for the first time. In his 1837 poem, "Concord Hymn", thinker and author Ralph Waldo Emerson immortalized the North Bridge Fight as "the shot heard round the world".