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, January 18, 2021
Italian Alpini with a 6000kgh cannon they have carried into the Alps. The gun is still there today and can be visited, albeit it is on top of a 3000 meter mountain.
great find! Reminds me of this little tank https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2019/10/for-hundred-years-this-french-tank-has.html standing guard in Norway for 100 years
Here's the full story of the Italian cannon on Cresta Croce, a, 11,000 feet high mountain ridge, left there in WWI, in the forgotten White War, which was over annexing lands held by the Austro Hungarian empire, but inhabited by Italians https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2019/10/an-italian-cannon-still-stands-on.html
This cannon (correctly: a howitzer) can be found on Monte Adamello (3.554 m above sea level) in Northern Italy. http://www.moesslang.net/149g_haubitze_im_adamello.htm The North Italian Alps were frontline for more than three and a half years in one of the fiercest campaigns known in military history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_War Even today, more than hundred years after the cease-fire the mountains and glaciers of this high-alpine region relinquish great masses of military gear, weapons and ammunitions. http://www.moesslang.net/cevedale_3_kanonen.htm
great find! Reminds me of this little tank https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2019/10/for-hundred-years-this-french-tank-has.html standing guard in Norway for 100 years
ReplyDeleteHere's the full story of the Italian cannon on Cresta Croce, a, 11,000 feet high mountain ridge, left there in WWI, in the forgotten White War, which was over annexing lands held by the Austro Hungarian empire, but inhabited by Italians https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2019/10/an-italian-cannon-still-stands-on.html
ReplyDeleteWonder if that barrel had been changed over time? Sure looks shorter and bead-blasted..........
ReplyDeleteThis cannon (correctly: a howitzer) can be found on Monte Adamello (3.554 m above sea level) in Northern Italy. http://www.moesslang.net/149g_haubitze_im_adamello.htm
ReplyDeleteThe North Italian Alps were frontline for more than three and a half years in one of the fiercest campaigns known in military history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_War
Even today, more than hundred years after the cease-fire the mountains and glaciers of this high-alpine region relinquish great masses of military gear, weapons and ammunitions. http://www.moesslang.net/cevedale_3_kanonen.htm
Some more relicts of the high-alpine war front May 1915 - November 1918: http://www.moesslang.net/1_drehtag_global_warning.htm
DeleteIi believe this was also on a segment of the TV show "Mysteries of the Abandoned".
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ReplyDeleteSomeone pulled out the fun switch.
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