For example, Atkinson says, we can learn "that however difficult our difficulties today, however burdensome they seem to be, we've had much more difficult periods in our national history and we have survived it somehow." It's called The British Are Coming.Ītkinson, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and historian, says there are lessons from the Revolution that hold true even today, 244 years after the shot heard 'round the world. Rick Atkinson, who wrote the best-selling 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. With that, the Revolutionary War had begun. The red coats fired at members of the local militia, killing eight and wounding 10. No one knows for sure who fired the shot, but when British soldiers heard it, they panicked. On April 19, 1775, the "shot heard 'round the world" was fired on the Lexington, Mass. Listen Gerry Marrocco, a historical interpreter and guide, gives a tour known as the Liberty Ride at the Battle Green in Lexington, Mass.
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