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.
giving first meaning to dual purpose guns
ReplyDeleteRange is too far. The bullets will have lost a lot of their momentum by the time they get to the Uboat, but they might force it to submerge.
DeleteThe blimp is inflated with highly inflammable hydrogen, so this battle isn't as one-sided as it appears!
ReplyDeleteHmmm. Would tracer bullets (developed in WW1) ignite the hydrogen? I dunno!
Well, as I recall, it's one of the tools used by the balloon busters of the Great War.
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