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.
Wednesday, September 20, 2017
General “Electric Whiskers” Annibale Bergonzoli photograped after his capture in the battle of Beda Fomm, February 1941.
Italians made cheerful POWs; French made surly POWs. Neither made soldiers.
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DeleteAlso he's not the first guy named Hannibal to get whipped in Africa.
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