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.
Tuesday, October 23, 2018
Sergeant William Knapp, 1st.Battalion, Coldstream Guards (regimental Nº.2145) in Aldershot, Hampshire – July 1856. He is wearing the Crimea Medal with four bars for Alma, Balaklava, Inkermann and Sebastopol
Truly a badass.
ReplyDeleteWarrior
ReplyDelete