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.
Gorizia has 10 yrs left to live. Damaged beyond repair by Alied bombins, captured and abandoned by the Germans, when Italy surrenedered, and scrapped in 1947. Cruiser Fiume 4 yrs left, sunk at the Battle of Matapan in 1941.
Gorizia has 10 yrs left to live. Damaged beyond repair by Alied bombins, captured and abandoned by the Germans, when Italy surrenedered, and scrapped in 1947. Cruiser Fiume 4 yrs left, sunk at the Battle of Matapan in 1941.
ReplyDeleteAlso a British County class cruiser, presumably either London or Sussex which visited Venice in September that year.
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