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.
Monday, May 14, 2018
German super-heavy cannon Gustav (800 mm caliber, weight 1350 tonnes) at the position in Bakhchisarai (Crimea).
My, that's a big one. When you really want to reach out and touch someone.....
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Delete31½" shells. 7 tons, 30 miles. Good lord. made for destroying the Maginot line, but never used for that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwerer_Gustav
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