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.
By order of the Governor, we must wear one of these when shopping for groceries, effective today. Of course if you were shopping for toilet paper you were already armored up long ago.
Can you imagine being inside that when somebody clangs it with a broad sword?
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ReplyDeleteSorry, it's a beaver-tailed sallet. German by the look of it.
ReplyDeleteBurgonets have a metal fore-aft ridge, called a comb, on them. Kind of like the big metal ridge on a Morion (that Spanish conquistador helmet.)
Yep. And probably late 15th century (though early 16th is possible)
DeleteEffective at keeping the rain from going down your collar. Stopping a halberd blow not so much
ReplyDeleteHe probably carried a pole arm against Calvary, the beaver tail protected him from the slash of the saber.
ReplyDeleteLooks like the baby alien emerging from John Hurt's chest in Alien.
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