The rifle shot could be heard for hundreds of yards around.
By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April’s breeze unfurled; Here once the embattled farmers stood; And fired the shot heard round the world. — (Ralph Waldo Emerson, Concord Hymn -- Lexington et Concord sont deux villes près de Boston, où s’est commencé la Révolution Américaine. )