Relations were already tense in 1775 when British "redcoats" marched on an ammunition depot which their American colonists had stocked in Concord, Massachusetts. Civilian colonists took their firearms and stood to defend it (here and in nearby Lexington) against the foremost military of world.
Who shot first is debated, but it's been called "the shot heard round the world" because the ensuing revolutionary war freed the colony to become the United States of America.
Just two months later, on June 14, the Continental Congress created its army to fill its need for a "united fighting force with a clear chain of command." George Washington was then selected to be its general, and a new chapter in world history began.
Our Secretary of Defense tells the story of the formation of the U.S. Army:
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