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.
Armed, but not terribly armored.
ReplyDeleteUSS Galena - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Galena_(1862). Note projecting unexploded shell just above waterline.
ReplyDeleteThe hull below the waterline was wood, but the upper sides did carry some armor backing.
Yankee bastards
ReplyDeleteDid they use pointed projos in their cannons back then?
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