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.
The Comanche were true warriors. The only way they could be defeated was to kill all of the buffalo. Then they starved.
ReplyDeleteLooks very much like Kevin Costner's friend in Dances with Wolves. Rodney A. Grant http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002110/?ref_=tt_cl_t4.
ReplyDeleteAlso known as "The Predator's Stare".
ReplyDeletetruly a formidable opponent. if handed a Tide-pod, though, you know the first thing he'd do is put it in his mouth...
ReplyDeleteThat is a MAN, in every sense of the word. We could use a lot more of him.
ReplyDeleteRead up about the Commanche-Texas war, amazing fighters, absolutely ruled their area, everybody was scared of them.
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