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, April 11, 2015
Big Moon with telescope. Siksika. 1909. Photo by Walter McClintock.
And trade blankets, glass beads, steel knives and tomahawk blades, black powder and particularly repeating rifles. Muskets that are not volley fired and tipped with bayonets are not much of an advantage over arrows delivered from horseback.
I found it interesting that the Army kept sabers for mounted troops. Ceremonially it works. Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest, CSA, swapped sabers for sawed off shotguns for close work during the War of Northern Aggression and they worked much better.
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I'm sure the Lakota immediately recognized the utility of the spyglass.
DeleteAnd trade blankets, glass beads, steel knives and tomahawk blades, black powder and particularly repeating rifles. Muskets that are not volley fired and tipped with bayonets are not much of an advantage over arrows delivered from horseback.
DeleteI found it interesting that the Army kept sabers for mounted troops. Ceremonially it works. Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest, CSA, swapped sabers for sawed off shotguns for close work during the War of Northern Aggression and they worked much better.
I've studied up a bit on Forrest, and he really was a military genius.
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