And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Very few people today understand what it took to make ships in the "days of sail" actually work. It took apprentice sailors a long time to learn their craft, and it's why the Royal Navy established a system of young mid-shipmen. Royal Navy officers had to learn their craft back in the day when a Royal Army commission was simply purchased.
Very few people today understand what it took to make ships in the "days of sail" actually work. It took apprentice sailors a long time to learn their craft, and it's why the Royal Navy established a system of young mid-shipmen. Royal Navy officers had to learn their craft back in the day when a Royal Army commission was simply purchased.
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