On April 19, 1775, a hardy band of patriots took on the might of the British Empire, setting off a war that eventually spanned the entire globe and forever changed the course of history. From the “shot heard round the world” at Lexington to the moment “the world turned upside down” at Yorktown, watch as the dramatic story of the Revolutionary War unfolds in this animated map, produced by the Civil War Trust, in partnership with Wide Awake Films, the Society of the Cincinnati, George Washington’s Mount Vernon, Dale Gallon, and Robert Cloutier, and with funding from the Krupp, Archelis & Bodman Foundations.