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, February 21, 2018
USA Civil War Cannon Ball still wedged in the wall of the Old Stone House, Manassas, Virginia
On the eastern shore of Maryland is the town of Crisfield. There is an old brick building, a church maybe, with a cannon ball from the war of 1812. It is at least 2 stories up, so not just put there afterward.
Right down the road from my office. That's not the only projectile stuck in that house.
ReplyDeleteApparently that house took a lot of fire during the Battle of Manassas.
DeleteOn the eastern shore of Maryland is the town of Crisfield. There is an old brick building, a church maybe, with a cannon ball from the war of 1812. It is at least 2 stories up, so not just put there afterward.
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