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The American Revolution.

The phrase comes from Ralph Waldo Emerson's poem "Concord Hymn" and specifically references the first shot fired at Old North Bridge, Concord, MA on April 19, 1775.

In Europe it is sometimes incorrectly associated with the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand by Gavrilo Princips, the event that started WWI.

the Revolutionary war or the war of Independance

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