[Kozak]

"The embattled farmers stood and fired the shot heard round the world," declared Ted Kennedy, in a moment of Revolutionary War nostalgia.

Of course if ol Ted and his ilk were around then the farmers of Massachusetts would have been limited to throwing rocks at the Redcoats.....

[skepsel]

About the throwing rocks part (LOL) I recall a pair of anecdotes about the British Army in the Napoleonic Wars or perhaps the Crimea, in the days of muzzle loaders, when regiments in square had run out of ammunition, in one case they were throwing rocks at French cavalry and in another their Colonel orders his men to make faces!