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.
Sunday, February 14, 2021
WWI, Austro-Hungarian mountain troops, the Gebirgsjager.
Tough buggers, indeed. If you're ever in Salzburg visit the museum dedicated to their fore-runners, the Landesschützen, in the castle to get an idea of what the fighting conditions were like.
Tough looking hombres.
ReplyDeleteTough buggers, indeed. If you're ever in Salzburg visit the museum dedicated to their fore-runners, the Landesschützen, in the castle to get an idea of what the fighting conditions were like.
ReplyDeleteAnyone know what the bandoleer on the right is made of or what it is for ?
ReplyDeleteIt's a length of climbing rope, wound up so it doesn't get tangled in other equipment so easy...
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