He simply took the job -and the embattled farmers and their wives obeyed him.

"Here once the embattled farmers stood,/ And fired the shot heard 'round the world."

The "embattled farmers" who fired "the shot heard round the world" were underequipped, but they sure were better shots than the Brits.

A single cannon volley killed four of the embattled farmers.

Today, more than two centuries after the embattled farmers stood and fired the shot heard "round the world", the ideals of our founders still resonate across the globe.

Jan Buk was no longer an embattled farmer; he was now a statesman, so acknowledged by other statesmen around the world.

Those "embattled farmers" of the past, those citizen-soldiers, had not asked for war.

The two of them had fought as a team in their first clash with the embattled farmers.

We left Route 2, onto 2A, which was the old Revolutionary War road, where the embattled farmers sniped at the redcoats from behind the fieldstone walls.

His hands set to work- The embattled farmers of Hannaford County, Virginia, weaved up upon Payne's shack in a slowly tightening circle.