![]() ![]() SIMON: That's where we spoke with Rick Atkinson - right across from the Green where many militia spent the night waiting to see the whites in the eyes of more than 800 British soldiers who'd been sent to stop the American Revolution before it could begin. MARROCCO: Now, if you turn around, folks, and you look across the street here, this yellow house is called Buckman Tavern. Rick Atkinson, who wrote the bestselling and greatly honored "Liberation Trilogy" about the American effort in Europe during the Second World War, has now written the first book in a new trilogy to tell the story of the war that made America. SIMON: Eight militia - they called themselves rebels then, not yet Americans - fell dead. Most of our militia have their backs to them - a few scattered shots and then a scatters volley. ![]() ![]() Without orders, they start to fire at our militia. But what's going to happen next? The red coats hear a single musket fire, and they panic. MARROCCO: The first shot of the American Revolution and to this day no one knows who fired it. Though Gerry Marrocco, who gives guided tours in a tri-cornered hat, waistcoat and breaches, told us the other day. In April 19, 1775, the shot heard round the world was fired on the Lexington, Mass., town Green. We call it Battle Green today, but it's really a common in the. GERRY MARROCCO: This is the Green behind you. ![]()
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