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.
Thursday, June 10, 2021
USS Texas (1892) in a Brooklyn Navy Yard dry dock in New York City. Photographed sometime between 1892 and 1903.
...Re-named the San Marcos to make way for the subsequent dreadnought of the same name (commissioned in 1914), which is presently sitting next to the San Jacinto monument, open for tours.
...Re-named the San Marcos to make way for the subsequent dreadnought of the same name (commissioned in 1914), which is presently sitting next to the San Jacinto monument, open for tours.
ReplyDeleteYou can see the oars sticking out from the sides.
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