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.
Saturday, February 7, 2015
Your day wasn't this bad
Cuirass of rifleman Fauveau holed by a cannon ball, Battle of Waterloo, 1815
Ouch !
ReplyDeleteGeez, that had to smart.
ReplyDelete'Twas a really, really bad day.
ReplyDeleteThat's going to leave a mark!
ReplyDeleteIt only goes to show that body armor, while useful at times, has its limitations.
ReplyDeleteIn defense of the armor it appears to have stopped a somewhat smaller round just above Fauveau's heart.
ReplyDeleteThat's the proof mark. They shot a musket into the armor as "proof" that it would stop the ball. They always put it in the same spot near the heart.
DeleteHe was not a rifleman, but a heavy cavalry trooper of the cuirassiers of the Imperial Guard. Hence the breastplate.
ReplyDeleteNon Monsieur! It is just a flesh wound!
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